Pete L wrote:
>
> Can't find anything online...... We live at Cliftonville, just to
> the east of Margate, Kent. On our beach walks I have seen quite a few
> mussels. Does anybody know how to tell if they are ok to eat? There is
> a sewage outfall not too far away but I believe that it is treated
> now. The beach is relatively clean. Is it a case that if the mussels
> taste fine they really are?

Talk to your local water authority and to the local. They'll know if the
water is clean enough to harvest wild mussels.

Also see he news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/4771781.stm

Water and beach at Margate were clean in 2006 at any rate. Nice place,
that!