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Phycotoxins in Marine Shellfish: Origin, Occurrence and Effects on Humans

Marine Drugs, 2018
Massive phytoplankton proliferation, and the consequent release of toxic metabolites, can be responsible for seafood poisoning outbreaks: filter-feeding mollusks, such as shellfish, mussels, oysters or clams, can accumulate these toxins throughout the ...
Federica Farabegoli, Lucía Blanco, Laura P. Rodríguez, Juan Manuel Vieites, Ana García Cabado   +4 more
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Detection of shellfish toxins from scallops in Guangzhou seafood market

Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins including Tropical Diseases, 2011
To evaluate scallop safety in the Guangzhou seafood market, contents of shellfish toxins in adductor muscle, mantle skirts, gills and visceral mass of scallops were examined using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and mouse unit assay.
L Huazhang, L Wen-xue, Z Quan-xin, Y Guang-yu, L Jun-tao, M Li, Z Wei   +6 more
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Surveillance and Risk Assessment of Diarrhetic and Paralytic Shellfish Toxins in the Tangshan Shellfish Culture Areas of Bohai Sea, China

Progress in Fishery Sciences, 2023
Shellfish are filter feeders that can accumulate toxic algae and their related toxins, increasing risk when consumed. Shellfish toxins can directly affect the physiological activities of marine organisms and threaten the stability of marine ecosystems ...
Xuying ZHENG, Zhaoxin LI, Xiaojie SUN, Lihong XING, Mengting ZHANG, Panpan ZHU, Jiyao WANG, Wenqing SU   +7 more
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Effect of Different N:P Ratios on the Growth, Toxicity, and Toxin Profile of Gymnodinium catenatum (Dinophyceae) Strains from the Gulf of California

Toxins, 2022
The harmful microalgae Gymnodinium catenatum is a unique naked dinoflagellate that produces paralytic shellfish poisoning toxins (PSTs). This species is common along the coasts of the Mexican Pacific and is responsible for paralytic shellfish poisoning ...
Francisco E. Hernández-Sandoval, José J. Bustillos-Guzmán, Christine J. Band-Schmidt, Erick J. Núñez-Vázquez, David J. López-Cortés, Leyberth J. Fernández-Herrera, Carlos A. Poot-Delgado, Manuel Moreno-Legorreta   +7 more
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The Incidence of Marine Toxins and the Associated Seafood Poisoning Episodes in the African Countries of the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea

Toxins, 2019
The occurrence of Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) and bacteria can be one of the great threats to public health due to their ability to produce marine toxins (MTs).
Isidro José Tamele, Marisa Silva, Vitor Vasconcelos   +2 more
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Changing Trends in Paralytic Shellfish Poisonings Reflect Increasing Sea Surface Temperatures and Practices of Indigenous and Recreational Harvesters in British Columbia, Canada

Marine Drugs, 2021
Paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP) occurs when shellfish contaminated with saxitoxin or equivalent paralytic shellfish toxins (PSTs) are ingested. In British Columbia, Canada, documented poisonings are increasing in frequency based on 62 investigations ...
Lorraine McIntyre, Aroha Miller, Tom Kosatsky   +2 more
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Formation of a Volunteer Harmful Algal Bloom Network in British Columbia, Canada, Following an Outbreak of Diarrhetic Shellfish Poisoning

Marine Drugs, 2013
Evidence for shellfish toxin illness in British Columbia (BC) on the west coast of Canada can be traced back to 1793. For over two hundred years, domestically acquired bivalve shellfish toxin illnesses in BC were solely ascribed to paralytic shellfish ...
Nicola Haigh, David Cassis, Lorraine McIntyre   +2 more
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Development of a Method for Detecting Alexandrium pacificum Based on the Quantification of sxtA4 by Chip-Based Digital PCR

Toxins, 2022
Alexandrium pacificum, which produces the paralytic shellfish toxin (PST) saxitoxin (STX), is one of the causative species of paralytic shellfish poisoning outbreaks in coastal areas of Korea.
Jun-Ho Hyung, Jinik Hwang, Seung-Joo Moon, Eun-Joo Kim, Dong-Wook Kim, Jaeyeon Park   +5 more
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Accumulation and Elimination Dynamics of the Hydroxybenzoate Saxitoxin Analogues in Mussels Mytilus galloprovincialis Exposed to the Toxic Marine Dinoflagellate Gymnodinium catenatum

Toxins, 2018
Paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP) is a severe food-borne illness, caused by the ingestion of seafood containing paralytic shellfish toxins (PST), which are naturally produced by marine dinoflagellates and accumulate in shellfish during algae blooms ...
Pedro Reis Costa, Ana Catarina Braga, Andrew D. Turner   +2 more
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Risk Ranking of Microbiological Hazards in Food (2015–2019)

Food Risk Assess Europe, Volume 4, Issue 3, July 2026.
Abstract Microbiological food safety risks arise from pathogens that can contaminate food at different points along the food chain. Exposure to these hazards can result in illnesses that can vary widely in severity and duration, depending on factors such as the specific pathogen involved, the amount of the pathogen ingested, and the susceptibility of ...
Ms Chloe Glennon, Lisa O’Connor, Kevin Burke, Lauren Russell, Shaun Smith, Declan Bolton, Theo de Waal, Patricia Garvey, Montserrat Gutierrez, Noel McCarthy, Lois O’Connor, Helen O’Shea, Geraldine Duffy   +12 more
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