THE CHLORINE TREATMENT OF CONTAMINATED OYSTERS

Abstract

T HE GREAT SUCCESS which has attended the use of chlorine for the purification of water supplies has led to an attempt to apply a similar procedure to the purification of contaminated oysters. Wells, on the basis of experimental observations, has advocated the use of chlorinated sea water treatment of oysters and believes that contaminated oysters thus treated may be rendered safe for consumption. Wells extracts from the report of the New York State Conservation Commission (1922) the following recommendations which recommendations, we believe, are representative of his views.