BANGKOK, Thailand — Unscrupulous vendors in Thailand have been selling meat of the deadly puffer fish disguised as salmon, causing the deaths of more than 15 people over the past three years, a doctor ...

Pufferfish can be served for human consumption as a delicacy called fugu. It is especially popular in Japan, but you may also see it available in other countries, including Korea, China, Singapore, ...

Tetrodotoxin (TTX) is best known as the neurotoxin of the puffer fish, though it also appears in a range of other marine species. You might remember it from an episode of The Simpsons involving a ...

The Director-General of NAFDAC, Prof. Moji Adeyeye, gave the warning in a statement in Abuja. The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) on Thursday cautioned the ...

The puffer fish is poisonous, but not venomous, while a rattlesnake is venomous but not poisonous. Both can kill you with their toxins. Sound confusing? Let’s try to clear it up. A poison is any ...

Food is vital to life, but sometimes what we eat can be deadly. We generally try to avoid what we know to be toxic or avoid common allergens, like peanuts, if we are allergic to them. But what is the ...

ROCKFORD, Ill. (AP) – A suburban Chicago man was sentenced Monday to more than 7 1/2 years in prison for obtaining a deadly puffer-fish toxin to deploy as a weapon, which federal authorities once ...

ROCKFORD, Ill. (AP) — A suburban Chicago man was sentenced Monday to more than 7½ years in prison for obtaining a deadly puffer-fish toxin to deploy as a weapon, which federal authorities once accused ...