At least six people fell ill with diarrhetic shellfish poisoning after eating mussels harvested in the United Kingdom earlier this year.
The mussels contained high levels of heat-stable okadaic acid (OA)-group toxins. Without a validated
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The discovery of unsafe levels of Diarrhetic Shellfish Poison in samples of shellfish collected near Seattle has prompted the closing of Puget Sound beaches for recreational shellfish harvest. Washington state officials, along with Seattle and
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A well-traveled shellfish bug that has sickened thousands from Europe to Japan and South America over the past half century has finally found its way into Washington state’s prized mussel and clambeds.
The Washington Department
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The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is warning the public not to eat certain mussels from British Columbia because they may contain a biotoxin, Diarrhetic Shellfish Poisoning (DSP), which reportedly has made dozens of people
