The shellfish could be contaminated with toxins that could cause paralytic shellfish poisoning. Symptoms can include nausea, vomiting, tingling in the arms and legs, and temporary paralysis.

They may be contaminated with high levels of paralytic shellfish poisoning, or PSP, a naturally occurring toxin produced by algae. Shellfish harvested from those areas during that period were ...

In the meantime, agencies like the Washington State Department of Health have been relying on citizen scientists to help ...

Since October 10, no new whale deaths have been recorded, “which coincides with a marked decrease in the abundance of the paralytic toxin-producing species in the plankton and in the levels of ...

The California Department of Public Health has issued an advisory warning not to consume all bivalve shellfish (mussel, ...

“Cooking does not destroy the toxin.” The CDPH advised consumers not to eat sport-harvested mussels, clams or scallops from the affected region. Shellfish alert ️ Dangerous levels of ...

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The new advisory comes a week after a similar warning about locally-harvested shellfish containing dangerous paralytic shellfish poisoning toxins. According to CDPH, both of these phenomena are ...

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Food intoxication refers to eating a food that contains toxins that are already present in the food eaten. The USDA referred to botulism as an example, which is a rare paralytic illness caused by ...