There is a kind of fish that "goes out of the circle" with its appearance:
Round eyes, swollen belly
It looks pretty cute
It is made into various emojis
Guess what? This is talking about pufferfish
But, don't look at the puffer fish bulging look cute
It has a highly toxic body!
Do puffer fish are sold in Shenzhen?
Reporters explore the field
Recently, the Guangdong Provincial Market Supervision Bureau issued a risk warning that food poisoning has occurred in Guangdong due to consumers purchasing and processing puffer fish, or eating puffer fish at restaurants. No matter how the toxin of the pufferfish is cleaned, or fried and cooked, it cannot be destroyed, and the public should try to avoid eating it.
We have also reported many cases before
Incidents of poisoning due to the consumption of pufferfish
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Can I buy puffer fish in Shenzhen?
The reporter came to a large seafood market in Futian District
Some vendors told reporters
The sale or processing of puffer fish is strictly prohibited in the market
The reporter also came to a well-known seafood restaurant street in the Shell Area of Luohu Lake, and also did not find any pufferfish-related dishes. A store told reporters, "We don't sell puffer fish on this whole street." ”
If the puffer fish is poisoned
Onset of illness within 10 minutes
It is understood that there are more than 40 kinds of puffer fish along the coast of China, with different species and different parts of the poison. Dr. Huang Zhigang, deputy director of the emergency department from Peking University Shenzhen Hospital, told reporters that the skin, internal organs, ovaries and liver of the puffer fish have toxins. Some pufferfish have no toxins in the flesh of the fish, but after killing, the toxins of the internal organs may penetrate into the muscles.
Tetrodotoxin is a neurotoxin, poisoned people will have symptoms such as general paralysis, paralysis, dizziness and nausea, decreased blood pressure, and severe respiratory failure and death.
Huang Zhigang
Deputy Director of the Emergency Department of Peking University Shenzhen Hospital
Everyone knows that sodium cyanide is toxic, but in fact tetrodotoxin is 1,000 times more toxic than sodium cyanide. Now there are statistical data out, 0.5 mg of tetrodotoxin can be fatal, poisoning if the onset of the disease is very rapid, how quick to what extent, within ten minutes can start.
There is no specific drug for poisoning puffer fish by mistake
For many years, the consumption of puffer fish has been strictly prohibited in China. However, due to too many people "stealing to eat", in 2016, the Ministry of Agriculture and the State Food and Drug Administration jointly issued a notice to lift the ban on the two species of puffer fish cultivated in captivity, "Redfin Oriental Pufferfish" and "Dark-striped Oriental Pufferfish", and made strict regulations on the corresponding puffer fish breeding bases and processing technologies.
← redfin oriental puffer | Dark-striped oriental puffer →
However, the lifting of the ban does not mean that live puffer fish and whole fish can be sold in the market. Consumers should only be able to buy skin, meat with bone fresh or frozen packaging of processed products, packaging should also be accompanied by two-dimensional code, convenient traceability.
Doctors said that at present, there is no specific antidote to tetrodotoxin in the clinic, and the case fatality rate is very high. Members of the public should remember to eat puffer fish with caution to avoid trouble coming through the mouth.
First scene, one Shenzhen client reporter: Li Jia'an
Source: First Scene