1 person died! Again because I ate it! Be careful

Recently, the official website of the Guangdong Provincial Health Commission released the information on the public health emergency in the province in November 2021——

In November 2021 (00:00 on November 1 to 24:00 on November 30), 21 prefectures and cities in Guangdong Province reported one public health emergency of general or above level in addition to the new crown pneumonia epidemic, and one incident of food poisoning of puffer fish reported in Jieyang, with 3 cases of illness and 1 death, and the incident level was relatively large.

Guangdong Health Online found that in February this year, Guangdong reported three large-level food poisoning incidents. Among them, 2 cases were puffer fish poisoning incidents reported in Jieyang City, with a cumulative incidence of 2 people and 2 deaths.

A little earlier

Released by the Guangdong Provincial Market Supervision Bureau

Food Safety Risk Warning

Be wary of food poisoning caused by eating puffer fish

The processing and operation of wild puffer fish is prohibited

Puffer fish, scientific name pufferfish, because it contains tetrodotoxin, it is easy to be poisoned after eating and cause nerve paralysis, and then dizziness, vomiting, numbness of lips and fingers, general weakness and other symptoms, severe life-threatening. There are currently no specific antidotes and treatments.

It is understood that although puffer fish contains high toxicity, there are still some consumers who like to fish themselves, process themselves or entrust catering service units to process and eat, so similar food poisoning incidents occur every year. In recent years, in order to prevent and control puffer fish poisoning accidents, China has conditionally liberalized the processing and operation of breeding redfin oriental pufferfish and cultivated dark-striped oriental pufferfish.

According to the relevant documents, the breeding of puffer fish should be processed by qualified agricultural product processing enterprises in accordance with the relevant standards and inspected before it can be sold, and the pufferfish of the processing enterprises should originate from the river pufferfish source base filed by the agricultural department. Puffer fish processing products shall be packaged, with traceable two-dimensional codes attached to the packaging, and indicate the product name, implementation standards, raw material bases and processing enterprise names and filing numbers, processing dates, shelf life, preservation conditions, inspection qualification information, etc. Puffer fish processing products should use a uniform product inspection certificate. The operation of farmed puffer fish live fish and raw puffer fish whole fish is prohibited. The processing of all species of wild puffer fish is prohibited.

The sale of live puffer fish and wild puffer fish is illegal

The food safety risk tip issued by the Provincial Market Supervision Bureau pointed out that food business units should earnestly perform the main responsibility of food safety, and the processed pufferfish processed products must be processed and inspected by qualified agricultural product processing enterprises in accordance with relevant standards, and must check and retain product inspection certificates and related tickets. It should be reminded that the legally farmed and edible puffer fish that can be bought on the market are not live fish, but slaughtered fish skins or fish meat products, and all the puffer fish in circulation have traceable QR codes on the outer packaging.

Consumers must remember not to buy, do not catch and eat wild puffer fish, do not buy and do not eat whole puffer fish or puffer fish products processed by agricultural product processing enterprises that have not been approved by the state. Food business operators selling live puffer fish, wild puffer fish and their products, and catering service units processing and making live puffer fish and wild puffer fish are all illegal acts and will be punished by law.

At the same time, consumers are also reminded not to 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 by relevant laws; prohibit the consumption of wild animals in the name of livestock and poultry; prohibit the consumption of "Wild Fish of the Yangtze River", "White Fish of the Yangtze River", "Catfish of the Yangtze River" and other prohibited catches of the Yangtze River, so as to jointly protect the Mother River of the Yangtze River.

Special tips

First, pay attention to the symptoms of food poisoning, once there is nausea, abdominal pain, diarrhea, fever and other uncomfortable reactions, you should immediately stop eating suspicious food, seek medical treatment as soon as possible, and keep suspicious food;

The second is to report complaints in a timely manner, if you find illegal food business, please call the complaint and reporting telephone number "12345" and "12315" in time.

Source: Guangdong Provincial Health Commission, Guangdong Health Online