Following a post by Tim C.
Post by Tim C.http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2008/10/29/2404364.htm
"To keep them closed, the mussel has muscles. It uses its specific
adductor muscles. When we cook them, the heat can have a few effects
on the adductor muscles that keep the two halves of their shells stuck
together. Sometimes, the heat can denature the proteins in the
adductor muscles so that they simply disintegrate, or sometimes, it
can make one or both ends of the adductor muscles come unstuck from
the shell."
So if that muscle *was* working and now isn't, I had a live mussel. I
agree that the closed ones may also be alive and that there are other
causes of poisoning but that's no reason to ignore proof of life.
given the food poisoning is *bad*, that the advice they are OK only
comes from Oz seafood industry in my experience and their alternative
is that a bad mussel always smells bad, which I know to be wrong, I'm
sticking with the European methods.
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