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

In its ongoing commitment to safeguarding the quality of food consumed by our citizens, Ms. Clilia Davis, a leading scientist ...

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.

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?

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

Swimmers and surfers are now banned from Réunion Island. In the meantime, the Ciguatera-Program has been hunting off the population. This decision has faced controversy over the years, but the fatal ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.