A shellfish toxin recently surfaced in British Columbia poisoning 60 people and raising concerns in the province's aquaculture industry. The toxin has been traced to mussels that were harvested off Cortes Island, “It was the first-ever documented diarrhetic shellfish poisoning (DSP), outbreak in Western Canada,” said Dr. Eleni Galanis, a physician with the BC Centre for Disease Control.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) website, DSP is one of three “biotoxins of concern” in Canadian waters, the other two being responsible for amnesic shellfish poisoning and paralytic shellfish poisoning. The CFIA could not be reached for comment on when it started testing for DSP or why. It is not known whether testing was being done before the outbreak. Read more ...
This blog is written by Martin Little, The Aquaculturists, published and supported by the International Aquafeed Magazine from Perendale Publishers
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) website, DSP is one of three “biotoxins of concern” in Canadian waters, the other two being responsible for amnesic shellfish poisoning and paralytic shellfish poisoning. The CFIA could not be reached for comment on when it started testing for DSP or why. It is not known whether testing was being done before the outbreak. Read more ...
This blog is written by Martin Little, The Aquaculturists, published and supported by the International Aquafeed Magazine from Perendale Publishers
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