The Thai Food and Drug Administration has prohibited the serving of puffer fish after a recent spate of food poisoning. Vendors serving the fish could now face a maximum jail sentence of two years and ...

Public health officials in Hong Kong have investigated a number of recent food poisoning cases linked to a range of different foods. Earlier this week, the Centre for Health Protection (CHP) of the ...

To help effectively investigate, remove unsafe seafood products from the market, and develop new prevention strategies, the FDA relies on illness reporting from public health officials and healthcare ...

A delicacy in Japanese cuisine, puffer fish (fugu) also contain a lethal toxin. Improperly prepared puffer fish can cause the person eating it to experience food poisoning and a swift death. Such a ...

Pufferfish can be served for human consumption as a delicacy called fugu. It is especially popular in Japan, but you may also see it available in other countries, including Korea, China, Singapore, ...

Eating seafood containing toxic substances can have serious neurological as well as gastrointestinal effects, reveals a review in the April issue of THE LANCET NEUROLOGY. In parts of the Pacific, the ...

The poisonous puffer fish, which inflates itself into a small balloon when caught, lives in most of the world’s oceans. But only in Japan, where it is called fugu, has it become a national tradition.

Unscrupulous vendors in Thailand have been selling meat of the deadly puffer fish disguised as salmon, causing the deaths of more than 15 people over the past three years, a doctor said Thursday.

New documents released in the case of a former Fort Hood special agent accused of murdering his wife with puffer fish poison detail multiple poisoning attempts spanning two different countries. Staff ...