What's really interesting and relevant to the topic is that the oyster farm serves as a pre-filter to the desalination plant and there's an symbiotic relationship between the plant and the oyster farm.
> This was the first oyster farm to feature an inventive “depuration and purification” process, which involves immersing the oysters in triple-filtered seawater once they reach full size. This ensures that the oysters are a completely safe, top-quality delicious shellfish product.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/10best/2022/08/04/how-...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depuration
TIL.
Anyway, seafood comes from the ocean. I don’t see why they would be worse than other oysters.
It's more than rinsing them off. Oysters are filter feeders. They need to spend enough time in clean water to pump out any contaminants. It's an FDA regulated process:
https://www.fda.gov/food/federalstate-food-programs/national...
> Anyway, seafood comes from the ocean. I don’t see why they would be worse than other oysters.
It depends on the cleanliness of the water. These oysters are raised in a lagoon surrounded by the city of Carlsbad:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Carlsbad+Aquafarm/@33.1419...
I imagine that lagoon is subject to runoff and not nearly as clean as oysters harvested in open waters.