Development of standardized methodology for identifying toxins in clinical samples and fish species associated with tetrodotoxin-borne poisoning incidents

Development of standardized methodology for identifying toxins in clinical samples and fish species associated with tetrodotoxin-borne poisoning incidents

Tetrodotoxin (TTX) is a naturally occurring toxin in food, especially in puffer fish. TTX poisoning is observed frequently in South East Asian regions. In TTX-derived food poisoning outbreaks, the amount of TTX recovered from suspicious fish samples or leftovers, and residual levels from biological...

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Main Authors: Tai-Yuan Chen, Cheng-Hong Hsieh, Deng-Fwu Hwang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2016-01-01
Series:Journal of Food and Drug Analysis
Subjects:
identification
liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry
polymerase chain reaction method coupled with restriction fragment length polymorphism
tetrodotoxin
tetrodotoxin poisoning incident
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1021949815000824

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