Toxicity of Puffer in Taiwan.

Distribution of Tetrodotoxin in Pufferfish Collected from Coastal Waters of Sihanouk Ville, Cambodia

“…Poisoning incidents due to the mistaken consumption of L. lunaris in the belief that it was non-toxic L. wheeleri or L. spadiceus has already been documented in Japan and Taiwan, involving more than 10 poisoning victims with one death 4)ῌ6) . As in many species of marine pu#erfish reported previously 2), 3) , the toxin was contained mainly in the liver and ovary (Table 1), and the toxicity scores, which ranged from less than 2 to 257 MU/g, were somewhat similar to those found in Taiwanese (less than 4 to 1,300 MU/g) 16 and Thai (less than 5 to 2,920 MU/g) 15) specimens, though not Bangladeshi species, whose toxicity scores were reported to be always less than 5 MU/g 14) . Interestingly, in the months (December to February) when low toxicity of less than 5 MU/g was reported for Thai specimens 15) , the Cambodian ones were highly toxic.…”

Instrumental Analysis of Tetrodotoxin

“…Various TTX derivatives from pufferfish and other TTX-bearing organisms have been identified to date as a result of recent progress in the instrumental analysis of TTX ( Figure 3). In marine pufferfish species, toxicity is generally highest in the liver and ovary, whereas in brackish and freshwater species, toxicity is higher in the skin [7][8][9][10][11][12][13]. TTX was long believed to be present only in the pufferfish.…”

Forensics: Food Authentication Using MtDNA

“…It is because of morphological similarities between Lagocephalus lunaris and Lagocephalus gloveri that both the manufacturers and consumers would identify the species ambiguously. Additionally, Takifugu oblongus, one of the toxic puffer fish in Taiwan, is often abused as the material for the preparation of the dried dressed fish fillet [48].…”