California health officials are urging people to avoid eating shellfish gathered along parts of the Bay Area coast after dangerous toxins were found in local waters.
The California Department of Public Health said in a recent advisory shared by local officials Friday that consumers should not eat sport-harvested mussels, clams, scallops or oysters from Marin, Sonoma and San Mateo counties after testing detected high levels of paralytic shellfish poisoning, or PSP, toxins in mussels.
The toxins occur naturally in marine environments and cannot be removed by cooking, according to the department…