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Kiribati based INFOPESCA has secured contract from Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources Development for ToR for Policy Work and Conceptualizing Seafood Toxicology and Coastal Fisheries Laboratores | Financed under [...]

Tenders are invited for Design and supervision of final design mfmrd office complex including mcs and seafood toxicology laboratory Deadline 16 nov 2023 Major organization : WORLD BANK Address : [...]

The first laboratory in Latin America and the Caribbean to be able to detect ciguatoxins, the toxins responsible for the most significant non-bacterial seafood poisoning, recently became fully operational in [...]

2020 APR 10 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Health & Medicine Week -- A new study on agriculture is now available. According to news reporting out [...]

2020 MAR 20 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Health & Medicine Week -- Investigators publish new report on environmental research and public health. According to news [...]

2019 NOV 22 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Health & Medicine Week -- Investigators publish new report on Gram-Negative Bacteria - Vibrio parahaemolyticus. According to news [...]

2019 AUG 13 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Life Science Weekly -- Research findings on Life Science Research - Microorganism Research are discussed in a new [...]

2019 AUG 2 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Health & Medicine Week -- Researchers detail new data in Foodborne Diseases and Conditions - Ciguatera. According to [...]

2019 APR 5 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Health & Medicine Week -- Investigators publish new report on Biological Factors - Biological Toxins. According to news [...]

Dust blown into the oceans from African deserts can increase the growth of bacteria that are the main cause of food poisoning from seafood. Researchers have found that harmful bacteria [...]

WASHINGTON, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- The U.S. National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration has announced a $4 million grant to research causes of the world's most common seafood poisoning. The five-year [...]

The article offers information on the findings regarding the risk of seafood poisoning due to the ST631 strain of the bacteria Vibrio parahaemolyticus that causes abdominal pain, diarrhea, and vomiting.

The article reports on the use of less stricter programs and standards in ascertaining the level of toxicity and safety of seafood caught in the Gulf of Mexico after the BP oil spill in 2010.

The article discusses cases of food poisoning in Chicago, Illinois involving two people who ate soup with frozen monkfish imported by Hong Chang Corp. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has found that the imported monkfishes contain tetrodotoxin, a toxic substance. Tetrodotoxin could result to life-threatening diseases or death.

The article comments on the debate in the United States over the relative risk and benefits of eating seafood. Two authoritative scientific assessments have concluded that for most people the benefit of eating is more than the risk from contamination by toxic chemicals, heavy metals or microbes. These assessments are provided by the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Science and researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health.

Editorial. Discusses a study published in the journal "Science," which shows that farmed salmon contained high amounts of organochlorine chemicals. Finding that farmed salmon from Europe was more contaminated than those from North or South America; Suggestion that consumers limit themselves to one meal of farmed salmon per month.

Reports on the warning of scientists that they have found toxic industrial chemicals on seafood in Europe as of December 2000. Dangers in using dioxins; Basis of the warning.

Warns that seafood poisoning generally accounts for 15 to 20 percent of all reported food-poisoning outbreaks in the United States. How the cases are caused by toxins that get into shell or finned fish; The eight main fish toxins that a consumer should know about; The unveiling by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of a new seafood-regulation plan, to go into effect December 1997.

Informs about the increase in the number of warnings issued by the state health authorities against eating fish caught in polluted water, as revealed in a survey published by the Environmental Protection Agency, on August 28, 1995. Reasons for the rise.