Cute alert!
Let's take a look at the following diagrams
Can you guess what species these are?
Round eyes, swollen belly
It is the "big household" in the meme industry
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That's right, it's a pufferfish!
Don't look at the puffer fish bulging look cute
But puffer fish is highly toxic!
Recently, Guangdong has been happening continuously
Due to consumers' own purchase of processed puffer fish
Or eat puffer fish for a dinner party at a restaurant
Triggers an incident of food poisoning
The Guangdong Market Supervision Bureau issued an emergency risk warning
Food poisoning caused by pufferfish
In the past, there have been many incidents in Guangdong
Let's take a look at a few cases
Previous cases
01
April 2020
Huizhou men process puffer fish themselves and eat them
Emergency medical evacuation
Mr. Fan, a restaurateur from Huizhou, gave him a puffer fish in late April last year. Mr. Fan processed it himself and ate it, feeling that it was fishy, and only ate a little and put it down. Half an hour later, Mr. Fan felt numbness in his hands and feet, inconvenient movements, and some difficulty in speaking and breathing, so he asked his family to drive straight to Longgang Central Hospital.
The emergency doctor quickly gave Mr. Fan an emergency endotracheal intubation and sent him directly to the ICU for rescue. According to the doctor, when the patient was admitted to the hospital in the early morning of the same day, his spontaneous breathing basically stopped, he was comatose, and he was paralyzed.
Fortunately, after being rescued, Mr. Fan survived this crisis.
02
May 2016
A citizen of Shenzhen was poisoned to death by eating puffer fish
In May 2016, there was a poisoning incident of edible puffer fish in Xixiang Street, Bao'an, Shenzhen, and although the person concerned was treated urgently after the incident, he still died.
According to the notice of the Xixiang Street Office, the party Feng Mou purchased puffer fish from the fish stall in the bazaar market and went to a restaurant for processing. After eating, he became poisoned and was sent to Bao'an People's Hospital for emergency treatment. When he arrived at the hospital, Feng Mou had no independent breathing, and the hospital carried out rescue, but finally died at 9 p.m. due to excessive poisoning.
Sad examples
Remind us again and again
Don't be greedy for this mouthful
Tetrodotoxin is too strong!
It can be fatal up to 1.5 hours
Every year begins in early summer
People along the southern coast and along the river
Eating puffer fish is especially popular
Many Guangdong netizens also said that they have the habit of eating puffer fish
But I would like to remind everyone
Toxins in pufferfish
Toxicity is 1000 times stronger than sodium cyanide
0.5 mg is enough to kill people!
Besides
The toxins in pufferfish have the following characteristics
Pufferfish have toxins
Cannot be destroyed by cooking
This deadly tetrodotoxin, no matter how it is cleaned, or the eighteen martial arts such as frying and cooking in the kitchen are used, cannot destroy its toxin.
In addition, the puffer fish family is very large (there are about 121 species in the world, and there are more than 40 species in coastal China), and the varieties are different and the parts of the poison are different.
In general, the pufferfish's skin, internal organs, ovaries, and liver are all toxins. For some species of pufferfish, tetrodotoxin is not found in the flesh, but after being killed, the toxin in the internal organs may penetrate the muscles.
Image source: IC photo
Death may occur within 4 to 6 hours of the onset of poisoning
The fastest is 1.5 hours
Tetrodotoxin is a neurotoxin that will quickly paralyze the human nervous system, so poisoned people will be paralyzed, paralyzed, dizzy and headache, nausea and vomiting, blood pressure drop, breathing difficulties, etc., severe respiratory failure and death.
The poisoning process is rapid and intense, with an incubation period of only 10 minutes to 3 hours, and death may occur within 4-6 hours after the onset of the disease, and the fastest is 1.5 hours.
Once poisoned, be sure to seek medical treatment as soon as possible, within 1 hour, through intestinal lavage and other treatment to remove toxins, do not delay the best time for treatment.
There is no specific drug after poisoning
In addition, at present, there is no specific antidote in the clinic, and doctors can often only help patients with vomiting, gastric lavage, a large amount of fluids, catheterization, etc., to discharge toxins as soon as possible. Statistics show that puffer fish poisoning is one of the main causes of animal food poisoning incidents in the country, and the case fatality rate is very high.
For years, China's policy
The consumption of puffer fish has always been strictly prohibited
However, due to too many people "stealing to eat", in 2016, the Ministry of Agriculture and the State Food and Drug Administration jointly issued the "Notice on Conditionally Liberalizing the Processing and Operation of The Cultured Redfin Oriental Pufferfish and the Breeding of Dark-veined Oriental Pufferfish", which lifted the ban on the two varieties of artificially bred "Redfin Oriental Pufferfish" and "Dark-veined Oriental Pufferfish".
Source: Shenzhen Health Commission
The lifting of the ban is not in the traditional sense, and it is not allowed to sell live puffer fish and whole fish in the market, only processed puffer fish.
The edible part of the cultured puffer fish is the skin, and the meat can be boned. Semen nest (fish white), fish eggs, eyes, liver and other parts are still not allowed to be sold, and the waste from the processing parts needs to be properly disposed of.
Other words
That's what consumers should buy
(Only the skin and meat can be chilled or frozen with bones)
Nor does anyone want to raise, want to sell, want to process on the processing, the notice on the puffer fish breeding base, processing enterprises, processing personnel, safe processing technology and other aspects have made strict regulations, puffer fish processing products on the packaging also with a two-dimensional code, accidents can be traced immediately traceable.
In addition, other farmed live puffer fish and wild puffer fish are prohibited from processing and operating!
In short, everyone should remember: do not buy, do not catch and eat wild puffer fish, do not buy, do not eat whole puffer fish processed by enterprises that have not been approved by the state.
Here, we should also remind the majority of small partners
Except for puffer fish, these things should not be eaten indiscriminately
★ Do not buy, pick, or eat wild mushrooms or mushrooms of unknown origin;
★ Prohibit the consumption of wild animals under national key protection and other terrestrial wild animals, including artificially bred and artificially raised terrestrial wild animals, as well as other wild animals prohibited from being consumed by relevant laws;
★ Prohibition of the consumption of wild animals in the name of livestock and poultry;
★ It is forbidden to eat "Wild Fish of the Yangtze River", "White Fish of the Yangtze River", "Catfish of the Yangtze River" and other fish caughts prohibited from being caught in the Yangtze River, so as to jointly protect the Mother River of the Yangtze River.
Special tips
Be mindful of food poisoning characterization
Nausea, abdominal pain, and diarrhea occur
When fever and other uncomfortable symptoms
Consumption of suspicious foods should be stopped immediately
Seek medical attention as soon as possible and keep suspicious foods
If it is found that the food business is illegal and illegal
Please call the complaint reporting telephone number in time
“12345”、“12315”
Content source: Guangdong market supervision, Guangdong release
Shenzhen Health Commission
Source: Shenzhen News Network