About a week after Oregon health officials alerted residents to toxic mussels on the coast, Washingtonians have been informed of the same issue. On Wednesday, the Washington State Department of Health notified residents it had recorded high levels of paralytic poison among the shellfish on the coast.
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Two state agencies warn that mussels, razor clams and bay clams collected on the coast have high levels of the marine biotoxins for paralytic shellfish poison.