A global food standards-setting body has advanced work on various issues, including lead levels, Ciguatera, and tropane alkaloids. The latest Codex Committee on Contaminants in Food session was ...

Imitation crab can seem like a curious food to Western eaters, but in many cultures it has a regarded status. Here's what ...

People who eat contaminated barracuda flesh contract a disease called ciguatera, marked by diarrhea, cramps, vomiting, heart arrhythmias and pain. Most people recover, but 1% of reported cases in ...

“People feel that there are certain places that have lower incidences of ciguatera and others just take the risk.” He added that of the 291 roi that were examined on Oahu and Hawaii island ...

Once they pulled in a barracuda, but those can be contaminated with a toxin that causes the foodborne illness ciguatera, so they threw it back. What were they looking forward to now that they ...

Amanda Austrin is still sick after eating contaminated fish in 2011. Photo / Alan Gibson A man who suffered ciguatera poisoning after eating contaminated fish says the toxin stayed in his body for ...

Waltner-Toews, David Bunch, Martin J. Neudoerffer, Cynthia Parkes, Margot and Venema, Henry David 2004. Championing Ecosystem Sustainability and Health: Profile and Tribute to the Life and Work of ...

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In recent years, there has also been an increase in the occurrences of harmful algal blooms, which can produce toxins that cause foodborne illnesses such as the deadly paralytic shellfish poisoning ...

Findings; 13. Conclusions; 14. Recommendation; References; Annex I: Retrospective assessment of the radiation doses attributable to atmospheric testing at the atolls; Annex II: Ciguatera: Incidence ...

Ciguatera poisoning, a foodborne illness caused by eating contaminated fish, could also become “more widespread in Europe in the future” due to the “increasing densities and range of the toxic ...