Fu Mou of Ningbo ate a very delicious small snail when he was partying with friends, so he asked about the name of this small snail, and his friend told him that this kind of snail was called cutting incense snail, but he spent a lot of money to get it, and he couldn't find the source of goods to buy it!
The speaker has no intention, the listener has a heart, Fu went to check what kind of snail the cutting incense snail is, it turned out to be a textured snail, but the Internet said that it was poisonous, and the state explicitly banned the sale! But the problem was that he felt very delicious that day, so he ate a lot, but there was nothing to do!
It seems that it is not necessarily poisoned, as long as it is washed clean, it will not be poisoned when it is boiled out of the pot, and Fu Mou cleverly considered why there is no reason for poisoning! Suddenly Fu Mou had a flash of inspiration in his mind, and soon realized that this was a huge opportunity, people couldn't get the weave snail, he got this is not a lone product, high-priced sale is not a profit! That night he almost woke up laughing in his dreams, isn't this the wealth code, it's too easy!
Therefore, Fu ran the dock many times, knew the ship boss who ran the sea, actually organized the source of the textured snail, the next is the sales, I have to say that Fu still has the talent to do business, and soon the weaving snail opened the "sales channel" in the circle of friends, and began to be embarrassed to collect money because it was a friend, but soon the friend's friend introduced that the business was getting bigger and bigger, in just 2 months, he sold more than 400 copies of the textured snail at a price of 120 yuan, with sales of more than 40,000 yuan.
Even after being reported and arrested by the police, his wife Ma Mou also made 2 businesses! According to a report by Zhejiang Legal Daily on October 12, 2021, the Haishu District Court sentenced Fu to 8 months in prison for selling food that did not meet safety standards, and paid punitive damages of 400,000 yuan 10 times the sales price.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > what exactly is a textured snail, and is it really poisonous? </h1>
Weave snails are also known as sea snails, sea lion snails, wheat snails or white snails, and some places are also called cut snails, nail cones snails, a marine gastropod mollusk, distributed all over the world, China's Zhejiang and Fujian coastal distribution is more.
The length of the web is about 1 cm, and the "diameter" is about 0.5 cm, which is about the same size as a fingernail. The recognition of the weave snail is relatively high, the tail is relatively sharp, and when the screw mouth is facing the observer, its thread growth direction is counterclockwise, which is different from the common snail, field snail, etc., and is easier to identify.
The incubation period of snail poisoning is as short as 5 minutes, the longest 4 hours of onset, the toxin of the snail is mainly a neurotoxin, and the symptoms after eating are dizziness, vomiting, numbness in the lips and fingers, and other symptoms, and the serious ones can be fatal!
The weave snail itself is not toxic
The weave snail has a very deadly skill, that is, the weave snail itself is not poisonous, but it can enrich the toxins in food, and the toxins in the weave snail come from its filtered algae! After eating poisonous algae, the weaver snail will not be poisoned, but it can accumulate toxins.
Every year in the spring and summer is the high incidence of red tide, at this time the snail eats more toxic algae, enriched toxins, extremely toxic, so the probability of poisoning the snail eaten in spring and summer is very high, but it does not mean that you can eat the snail, because they will not metabolize the toxin, theoretically, the longer the snail year seems to be more poisonous.
On July 14, 2005, in Xi'nan Town, Xiapu County, fisherman Chen Mou was poisoned after eating the weave snail, and died after being rescued.
From July 8 to 9, 2012, 8 people in Wenzhou Economic Development Zone and Ruian City developed symptoms of poisoning due to eating textured snails, and one of them died after ineffective rescue.
In May 2015, a 2-year-old boy in Putian was poisoned after eating a weave snail, or became a vegetative person.
However, you do not need to panic, because under normal conditions, you can not buy textured snails in the aquatic market, because as early as 2007, the No. 10 announcement of the Ministry of Health of China required that the catering industry should not use the textured snail as an ingredient, and on July 20, 2012, China's Ministry of Health issued another announcement prohibiting any food production and operation units from purchasing, processing and selling textured snails.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > what variety of toxins are there and how toxic are they? </h1>
As early as June 15, 1793, Captain George Vancouver recorded a rare case while traveling around the world in the North Pacific, where five crew members were procuring local mussels as premature births, resulting in severe poisoning, one of whom died, and the captain recorded the mussels on the estate as poisonous.
Of course, it is not that the mussels are poisonous, but the mussels filtered the toxic algae that occurred at the red tide, which also enriched the toxin, and the process did not have a preliminary explanation until 1928, Meyer found a common point in the case of shellfish poisoning, there was an outbreak of vortex flagella in the sea of shellfish eaten by the deceased, so Meyer believes that this toxin is more related to these algae.
Vortex flagella
In 1957, scientists isolated this toxin in the stone clam, it is called PSP (Sax toxin), so it is also called stone clam toxin, or paralytic shell poisoning, stone clam toxin and tetrodotoxin poisoning symptoms are very similar, clinically difficult to distinguish, all there are also data will be texture snail poisoning and tetrodotoxin equivalent, although the understanding is not big, but from a scientific point of view this is very imprecise.
The toxin in the texture snail is also the "stone house clam toxin", and the amount of oral lethality to the human body is 0.54 to 0.9 mg! After ingestion, the toxin will act directly on the nervous system, blocking the sodium channel in the nerve cell membrane and causing paralysis, which is 50 times more potent than morphine and 80 times more toxic than cobra, and is known as "the most toxic organic compound known".
But what is more dizzying is that the thermal stability of this toxin is very good, that is to say, you can cook it thoroughly, pickling is not good, there is also ultraviolet stability under exposure, so whether it is stewing, pickling, sun drying can not remove the toxicity, more frightening is that there is no antidote, that is, there is no cure, and now it can only be treated.
Once you know the origin of the toxins in the snail, you know that during the red tide, there are many filter-feeding or algae-eating aquatic products that cannot be eaten! Don't be greedy and ruin your life!