Domoic Acid - Consumers Advised Not To Eat Sport-Harvested Crab, Shellfish, Sardines and Anchovies From Los Angeles, Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties - CA Dept. of Health Services Domoic Acid Outbreak May be Cause for High Mortality in Marine Life - CA Dept. of Fish and Game
Foodborne Illness and Seafood (The Bad Bug Book excerpted) - FDA Harmful Algal Blooms: Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning - U. Maryland Histamine (Scombrotoxin) Marine Toxins - CDC Marine Toxins in Food (Oct. 2002) - D.L. Sudakin, MD, MPH; Oregon State U. Natural Marine Toxins Natural Toxins Natural Toxins in Seafood (see Table 1) - FDA Natural Toxins (A Chemical Hazard) (Compendium of Fish and Fishery Products Hazards and Controls) - FDA Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning* 20 p. - Alaska Sea Grant Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning Information and Publications - Alaska Sea Grant Pre-harvest Shellfish Protection and Marine Biotoxin Monitoring Program - CA Dept. of Health Services Seafood Safety - National Academy of Sciences Shellfish Toxins - FDA Tetrodotoxin - FDA Tetrodotoxin: FDA Issues Consumer and Industry Advisories, and Press Release on Puffer Fish (October 2007)NEW Tetrodotoxin: FDA Issues Health Advisory on Puffer Fish from Florida (April 2002) Tetrodotoxin - Mislabeled Monkfish Believed to be Pufferfish (May 2007) - FDA * Acrobat Reader required
Harmful Algal Blooms: Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning - U. Maryland Histamine (Scombrotoxin)
Marine Toxins - CDC Marine Toxins in Food (Oct. 2002) - D.L. Sudakin, MD, MPH; Oregon State U.
Natural Marine Toxins Natural Toxins Natural Toxins in Seafood (see Table 1) - FDA Natural Toxins (A Chemical Hazard) (Compendium of Fish and Fishery Products Hazards and Controls) - FDA
Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning* 20 p. - Alaska Sea Grant Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning Information and Publications - Alaska Sea Grant Pre-harvest Shellfish Protection and Marine Biotoxin Monitoring Program - CA Dept. of Health Services
Seafood Safety - National Academy of Sciences Shellfish Toxins - FDA
Tetrodotoxin - FDA Tetrodotoxin: FDA Issues Consumer and Industry Advisories, and Press Release on Puffer Fish (October 2007)NEW Tetrodotoxin: FDA Issues Health Advisory on Puffer Fish from Florida (April 2002)
Updated: 10/19/07
Pamela D. Tom, SeafoodNIC Director Background profile
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