What months should you not eat oysters

You've heard it before: Only eat oysters in months that end with 'R.'  If you consider this adage true, December is your lucky month — though you've only got a few days left to indulge in delicious shellfish.

But if this were truly a fact, how do millions of restaurants serve up oysters year-round with no public health repercussions? Experts in the field say that's because the safest time to eat oysters is, in fact, all year long.

"You can eat oysters all year under proper care and even from warmer waters such as the Gulf of Mexico," Heath Davis, owner of Cedar Key Seafarms in Cedar Key, FL, said.

Due to improvements in rapid cooling systems and time temperature harvest, Davis explains that the advice of only consuming shellfish in certain months is no longer the rule of thumb for fresh, delicious and safe oysters.

So how did the old advice come to be?

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It turns out; it wasn't all a lie. This advice came in handy when oysters were harvested in the wild rather than farmed. Because oysters spawn in t

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