A study by the Food Standards Agency discovered that 76% of oysters tested had traces of the infectious winter vomiting bug.
However, Graham Larkin, operations manager at Colchester Oyster Fishery, said he was disappointed with the way the information had been put forward.
He said that most of the oysters found with the virus were “of such low detection levels they are not really of any relevance”.
“What you have to understand is that it’s a wild product and everything contains a trace of something or other,” he said.
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