Public urged not to eat unknown fishBy Jonathan Chin / Staff writerThe Food and Drug Administration urged the public not to eat kinds of fish that they do not recognize after a man from northern Taiwan was hospitalized with pufferfish poisoning. The man sought treatment at a public hospital after eating the fish and showed some of the symptoms, so the hospital sent fecal samples to the agency for testing to identify the fish, it said. A lab has identified the fish as Lagocephalus inermis, a type of pufferfish, the agency said, adding that there is no known antidote for the toxin. However, many pufferfish species that live in the waters surrounding Taiwan are difficult to identify by untrained eyes, the agency said. If someone suspects they had been poisoned by something they ate, the agency could identify the species by chemical analysis of a stool sample, it said.

Source: Taipei Times May 16, 2021 15:56 UTC