03-21-2006, 02:31 PM
I looked that stuff up, and shure enough, all species of puffer have the potential to be toxic, maybe fatal. Good call bro, all these i've been stareing down the barrel of a loaded gun.[
] I obviously know how to prepare them properly, but I think for safety reasons i'll keep that info to myself (don't ask guys!) There hasn't been any official cases of Toxicidy on the E. Coast, but check out the info I found:
Poisonings from tetrodotoxin have been almost exclusively associated with the consumption of pufferfish from waters of the Indo-Pacific ocean regions. Several reported cases of poisonings, including fatalities, involved pufferfish from the Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of Mexico, and Gulf of California. There have been no confirmed cases of poisoning from the Atlantic pufferfish, Spheroides maculatus. However, in one study, extracts from fish of this species were highly toxic in mice. The trumpet shell Charonia sauliae has been implicated in food poisonings, and evidence suggests that it contains a tetrodotoxin derivative. There have been several reported poisonings from mislabelled pufferfish and at least one report of a fatal episode when an individual swallowed a California newt.
From 1974 through 1983 there were 646 reported cases of pufferfish poisoning in Japan, with 179 fatalities. Estimates as high as 200 cases per year with mortality approaching 50% have been reported. Only a few cases have been reported in the United States, and outbreaks in countries outside the Indo-Pacific area are rare.
You'd think the Japanese would have gotten the picture after 179 people died in 9 years. [pirate] Well, no more puffer's for me, they shure are good though.
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] I obviously know how to prepare them properly, but I think for safety reasons i'll keep that info to myself (don't ask guys!) There hasn't been any official cases of Toxicidy on the E. Coast, but check out the info I found: Poisonings from tetrodotoxin have been almost exclusively associated with the consumption of pufferfish from waters of the Indo-Pacific ocean regions. Several reported cases of poisonings, including fatalities, involved pufferfish from the Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of Mexico, and Gulf of California. There have been no confirmed cases of poisoning from the Atlantic pufferfish, Spheroides maculatus. However, in one study, extracts from fish of this species were highly toxic in mice. The trumpet shell Charonia sauliae has been implicated in food poisonings, and evidence suggests that it contains a tetrodotoxin derivative. There have been several reported poisonings from mislabelled pufferfish and at least one report of a fatal episode when an individual swallowed a California newt.
From 1974 through 1983 there were 646 reported cases of pufferfish poisoning in Japan, with 179 fatalities. Estimates as high as 200 cases per year with mortality approaching 50% have been reported. Only a few cases have been reported in the United States, and outbreaks in countries outside the Indo-Pacific area are rare.
You'd think the Japanese would have gotten the picture after 179 people died in 9 years. [pirate] Well, no more puffer's for me, they shure are good though.
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