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Food and Water Borne Toxins

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      new window American.edu: Blowfish and Trade Description: Outline and overview of this subject. (american.edu)
new window Bad Bug Book: Ciguatera Fish Poisoning Description: Caused by the consumption of subtropical and tropical marine finfish which have accumulated naturally occurring dinoflagellate toxins through their diet. Includes cause, associated fish, symptoms, and outbreaks. (cfsan.fda.gov)
new window Bad Bug Book: Mushroom Toxins Description: Includes toxic substances and their effects, symptoms, diagnosis, descriptions of some poisonous mushrooms, and outbreaks. (cfsan.fda.gov)
new window Bad Bug Book: Scombrotoxin Description: Caused by the ingestion of foods that contain high levels of histamine. Includes cause, symptoms, associated foods, and outbreaks. (cfsan.fda.gov)
new window Bad Bug Book: Tetrodotoxin Description: Pufferfish or Fugu poisoning. Includes cause, symptoms, prognosis, and outbreaks. (cfsan.fda.gov)
new window Bad Bug Book: Various Shellfish-Associated Toxins Description: Caused by consuming shellfish that have accumulated dinoflagellate toxins. Features cause, symptoms, associated foods, and outbreaks. (cfsan.fda.gov)
new window Canadian Poisonous Plants Information System Description: Plants poisonous to livestock, pets and humans in Canada. Also has links to other poisonous plant resources. (cbif.gc.ca)
new window CDC: Ciguatera Fish Poisoning Description: Includes factsheet and publications. (cdc.gov)
new window Cigua Discuss Description: Discussion board for ciguatera fish poisoning. (cigua.com)
new window Ciguatera Fish Poisoning Description: Features cause, symptoms, and prevention. (hawaii.gov)
new window Cornell University Poisonous Plants Description: Searchable database of plants toxic to humans and animals. (ansci.cornell.edu)
new window Cyclopeptide-Containing Mushroom Toxicity Description: Features cause, symptoms, treatment, and possible antidotes. (uic.edu)
new window DBMD - Marine Toxins Description: Discusses the causes, symptoms, and prevention of several toxins carried by fish and shellfish. (cdc.gov)
new window eMedicine - Toxicity, Mushrooms Description: Article by Mary E Cataletto, MD. (emedicine.com)
new window eMedicine - Toxicity, Tetrodotoxin Description: Article by Theodore Benzer, MD, PhD. (emedicine.com)
new window eMedicine Health - Ricin Description: Consumer health resource center providing information on the symptoms and treatment of ricin poisoning. (emedicinehealth.com)
new window Food Safety Research Information Office: Ciguatoxin Description: Directory of factsheets, reports, press releases, and resources on the toxin. (nal.usda.gov)
new window Guide to Poisonous and Toxic Plants Description: From the US Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine. (chppm-www.apgea.army.mil)
new window Guide to Poisonous Plants Description: Searchable database from the Colorado State College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. (vth.colostate.edu)
new window Harmful Algal Blooms and Biotoxins Description: Factsheet on algal blooms and their effects on humans through affected fish and shellfish. (nwfsc.noaa.gov)
new window Human Illness Associated with Harmful Algae Description: Discusses the various fish and shellfish toxicities of humans caused by the animal's ingestion of toxic algae. (whoi.edu)
new window Index of Poisionous Plants Description: Directory of toxic plants and herbs and their effects. (botanical.com)
new window Mytraveldoctor: Blue-Green Algae Toxicosis Description: Describes the occurrence, manifestations, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of the disease. (traveldoctoronline.net)
new window Poisonous Mushrooms Description: Description of toxic species and the symptoms their toxins produce. (mv.com)
new window Poisonous Plant Database Description: A listing of papers of scientific information about the animal and human toxicology of vascular plants of the world. From the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition. (cfsan.fda.gov)
new window Questions and Answers About Dioxins and Food Safety Description: Discusses dioxins in the food chain. (ific.org)
new window Ricin Toxin from the Castor Bean Plant Description: Scientific and medical article on the toxin and its effects. (ansci.cornell.edu)
new window Scombroid Fish Poisoning Description: Includes cause, symptoms, and prevention. (hawaii.gov)
new window The Death Cap (Amanita phalloides) in North America Description: Images and discussion of toxicity. (members.aol.com)
new window The Merck Manual: Chemical Food Poisoning Description: Causes, symptoms, and signs of poisoning caused by eating plants or animals that contain a naturally occurring poison. (merck.com)
new window What You Should Know About Pfiesteria piscicid Description: This toxic dinoflagellate can cause symptoms in people exposed to water contaminated by the toxin. Information about the organism and links to technical and other material on this organism. (niehs.nih.gov)
new window WHO: Water-related diseases - Cyanobacterial Toxins Description: Includes cause, effects on people, distribution, scope of the problem, and prevention. (who.int)
 




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