Seafood and Cold Shellfish platters when pregnant!

[ellabe]

Hello,
I am looking from some advice as I keep getting mixed messages.
I am now 13 weeks pregnant but back in January before I fell pregnant, my husband bought me a tip to the Scottish Highlands to do the Seafood trail of Scotland as Seafood is my favourite. He has booked us into a different seafood restaurant for lunch and dinner which will be amazing but I am unsure what I can eat as I am now.

I know I can eat cooked shellfish but is this any shellfish – can I have cooked mussels, clams, lobster, prawns, crab scallops etc etc. I love cold shellfish platters (all the shellfish on these is cooked (apart from the oysters which I obviously wouldn’t eat) but they are served cold on Ice. Will I be ok to eat these?
Also can I eat Smoked Salmon – I have read it is ok if previously frozen but I doubt it will have been frozen up there.
All the restaurants do say that the fish is caught fresh that day!

Any advice as to what shellfish I can have and whether I can have cold shellfish platters would be much appreciated!

Thank you!
E

I only don't eat shellfish as I'm allergic. I eat sushi, smoked salmon etc and would eat shellfish, hot or cold, if I could.

That's me anyway.

NHS says smoked salmon is fine in the UK (here).

I think the frozen issue is for eating raw salmon - I remember reading that just before I dived into an itsu salmon sushi platter, it was delicious (not frozen, but farmed in the EU so it was fine).

I personally would go for it. As you say it's all cooked and sounds like it is then cooled quickly on ice so sounds good by food hygiene standards. It being cold isn't an issue in itself. Plus I bet these places are hot on hygiene and as you say it is all caught that day, and the fact it is all local means they will be adhering to strict EU rules.

I don't know what the actual NHS advice is on this, but I've never avoided it in either of my pregnancies. In fact, with this one, I had a big ole plate of raw oysters around 8 weeks. If the quality is good and it's fresh, then I think why not? I wouldn't eat something that's obviously been lying around awhile, not fresh, nearly out of date, etc. but that goes for anything really.

Thank you so much everyone for your help - really appreciate it

E