
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Facing fierce resistance, the Obama administration on Friday backed off a plan to ban sales of raw oysters from the Gulf of Mexico during warm-weather months.
The Food and Drug Administration said it would put the proposal on hold while it studies ways to make the popular shellfish safer.
"They will pry my raw oysters from my cold dead hands" say some.
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