Butter clams, important to many Alaskans’ diets, are notorious for being sources of the toxin that causes sometimes-deadly paralytic shellfish poisoning. Now a new study is providing information that ...

The advisory, released on November 27, 2024, warns against shellfish, particularly Alamang or Hipon, from the affected area to prevent poisoning caused by red tide. “To safeguard human lives, this ...

People are being warned not to collect or consume shellfish gathered from an area of the Bay of Plenty due to the presence of paralytic shellfish toxins. New Zealand Food Safety deputy director ...

The biotoxin, also known as paralytic shellfish poison, affects only creatures with central nervous systems, she says. Potentially lethal to humans, it doesn’t hurt sea urchins or other bivalve ...

It also includes Tauranga Harbour. Symptoms of paralytic shellfish poisoning include numbness and tingling, difficulty swallowing or breathing, nausea and vomiting, diarrhoea and paralysis.

In a previous advisory, the BFAR said eating toxin contaminated-shellfish can cause paralytic shellfish poisoning in humans. After ingestion, the poison affects the nervous system, with symptoms ...

are notorious for being sources of the toxin that causes sometimes-deadly paralytic shellfish poisoning. Now a new study is providing information that might help people harvest the clams more ...

More than 100 bivalve samples arrive at the CFIA lab weekly, needing to be tested for toxins that cause paralytic shellfish poisoning, amnesic shellfish poisoning and diarrheic shellfish poisoning.

According to health officials in Thurston County, high levels of the biotoxin that produces diarrhetic shellfish poisoning were discovered in the area. The closure area includes Burfoot Park ...

27, 2024, for Balite Bay after laboratory tests confirmed the presence of Pyrodinium bahamense, a toxic dinoflagellate that produces saxitoxin, the cause of paralytic shellfish poisoning. The advisory ...

BFAR-11 said water samples collected from Balite Bay tested positive for Pyrodinium bahamense, a toxic microorganism that causes paralytic shellfish poison (PSP) or toxic red tide. Because of this, ...

Butter clams, important to many Alaskans’ diets, are notorious for being sources of the toxin that causes sometimes-deadly paralytic shellfish poisoning. Now a new study is providing information that ...