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French agency finds potential health risk from contaminated shellfish

By News Desk on June 14, 2019

A French food safety agency has warned of a possible health risk due to consumption of pinnatoxin-contaminated shellfish.

The French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety (ANSES) looked at pinnatoxins (PnTXs), a…
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Amanita phalloides, also known as the death cap mushroom

By Joe Whitworth on November 22, 2018

Almost 250 cases of poisonings due to wild mushroom consumption have been reported in France in the past few weeks.

From July to mid-October this year, poison control centers recorded between five and 60 cases…
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