Food Safety Rules for Oysters, Crawfish Raise Very Louisiana Dilemma: How Do You Define ‘Bisque’?
State health officials want to set stricter rules for reusing shells in certain seafood dishes, which they say can risk exposure to a deadly flesh-eating bacteria that's seen a resurgence this year.
But along the way, they have run into a stumbling block and a very Louisiana dilemma: What counts as a bisque?
The state's restaurant safety code for decades has said that "Mollusk and crustacean shells may not be used more than once as serving containers."
Oysters are mollusks, and crawfish are crustaceans...
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