A global food standards-setting body has advanced work on various issues, including lead levels, Ciguatera, and tropane ...

Robin Bell and Karl Coplan have been sailing for decades. Then the West Nyack couple decided to circumnavigate the world in a ...

Mike Parsons is a professor and researcher at Florida Gulf Coast University, and he's an expert in ciguatera, which is typically talked about when discussing food borne illnesses in humans.

The sawfish was inflicted with the same illness that is causing other fish to exhibit a strange spinning behavior.

Did you go fishing along the coastline, caught fish but didn’t know the name of the fish, or how to clean or cook the fish?

For the erratic, spinning behavior, scientists have speculated it may be related to a toxin called gambierdiscus, which causes a food-borne illness called ciguatera in people who eat infected fish.

One of the microalgae species detected, Gambierdiscus, produces several toxins, including a compound responsible for a common form of fish poisoning in humans called ciguatera. “It’s been a ...

The investigation into Ciguatera toxin has revealed its origin in an algae species known as gamberdiscus. This algae stores ...

Mike Parsons, a Florida Gulf Coast University researcher and professor, has been tracking the situation in the Keys and believes the fish kills are due to elevated ciguatera levels. The toxin ...

Mike Parsons is a professor and researcher at Florida Gulf Coast University, and he's an expert in ciguatera, which is typically talked about when discussing food borne illnesses in humans.

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 ...