depuration

That process, known as depuration, eliminates harmful bacteria, though not viruses.

Depuration is the process of removing bacteria from shellfish, most often by ultraviolet light.

Oyster farms and related depuration depots are located in the suburb's south.

After harvest, mussels are typically placed in seawater tanks for depuration before marketing.

The last depuration plant in New York was on Staten Island.

The depuration process is the only alternative available to New York baymen who have been barred from harvesting shellfish in waters deemed polluted by the Federal Government.

Five miles down Raritan Bay, out by the brand new James T. White clam depuration plant in Highlands, the scene was considerably more cheerful.

In Havana Meucci constructed a system for waters depuration and rebuilt the Gran Teatro, which had been almost entirely destroyed by a hurricane.

Until now, the only such plant on the northern shore was the Clean Water Clams Depuration Plant in Sea Bright, which has been open for three years.

"There are 30 plants in France, 40 in England, and in Spain, depuration is mandatory for all shellfish," Mr. Furfari said.

Depuration, another word for purification, is a process in which clams are immersed in water treated with ultraviolet light, in which they purify themselves of contaminants in 48 hours.

There was also a more radical view, consisting on the unification through the extension and depuration of the Castilian Law, the old Royal Law transmuted into National Law.

The J. T. White Clam Depuration Plant in Highlands treats hard-shell clams - cherrystones, little necks and chowders - reducing the cleansing process to two days.

Some operators cheat by not cleaning the clams at all, say state and Federal officials, who in 1987 closed down the last depuration plant in New Jersey for selling uncleaned clams.

A key step in this koura farm is the depuration of koura in clean running water without food for up to 2 days in order to purge the gut cavity.

Gambling on the public's willingness to pay a bit more for clams that are cleaned, a Long Island entrepreneur is planning to open a depuration plant, New York's first in more than a decade.

There are only a handful of depuration plants in the country, and only three in the Northeast, one of which has been owned and operated by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts since 1925.

After the Arab invasion, Pre-Romanesque art was first reduced to the Kingdom of Asturias, the only Christian realm on the country at the time which reached high levels of artistic depuration.

Plants Throughout Europe "Most European countries have depuration at some level," said Santo Furfari, deputy chief of the F.D.A.'s Northeast regional office in Rhode Island.

Since the turn of the century, some form of depuration has been used in western Europe, after a report in 1899 by British scientists showed the effectiveness of chlorine in removing typhoid bacteria from oysters.

Vermandi served as the collector of foreign revenue in Bexar in 1822 and 1823, leaving office when he was elected alternate deputy of the Texas Provincial Depuration to the Mexican National Constitutional Congress.

Before the depuration plants were built, clammers had to take their catch about 50 miles down the coast to Barnegat Bay and bathe the clams in cleaner waters for 30 days to rinse out traces of coliform bacteria that are sometimes found near Sandy Hook.