Recently, it happened in a city in Guangdong
Because consumers eat puffer fish at restaurants
Triggers an incident of food poisoning
To avoid similar events
Guangdong Provincial Market Supervision Bureau
Post food safety risk alerts
The scientific name pufferfish, because it contains tetrodotoxin, is easy to be poisoned after eating and leads to nerve paralysis, and then dizziness, vomiting, numbness of lips and fingers, general weakness and other symptoms, serious life-threatening. There are currently no specific antidotes and treatments.
It can be fatal up to 1.5 hours
There is currently no specific antidote
For many years, our government has strictly banned the consumption of pufferfish. In 2016, the Ministry of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration of the People's Republic of China 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 farmed "Redfin Oriental Pufferfish" and "Dark-veined Oriental Pufferfish".
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The farmed puffer fish also needs to be processed by specially qualified enterprises, and the requirements are extremely high.
Experts also pointed out that professionally treated puffer fish is not without toxicity, but the toxicity is controlled in the range of 2.2 mg per kilogram, and excessive consumption will still cause harm to the body.
It is reported that the toxin on the pufferfish is 1000 times more toxic than sodium cyanide, and 0.5 mg is enough to cause 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 accidentally ingested pufferfish poisoning
Medical attention is required within 1 hour
Once poisoned, be sure to seek medical treatment within 1 hour as soon as possible, remove toxins through intestinal lavage and other treatments, and do not delay the best time for treatment!
Tetrodotoxin can be summarized as having three major characteristics: high toxicity, stable toxicity, and complex distribution in puffer fish. Toxicity is stable
Whether you are salted or sunburned, fried, fried, fried, cooked, fried, burned, charcoal roasted, even if you use your housekeeping skills and take out all eighteen martial arts, this tetrodotoxin is still very stable, and the structure is difficult to destroy.
Tetrodotoxin, even if you use all the pressure cookers in your house, it is all nonsense. Toxicity is complexly distributed in puffer fish
The third feature of tetrodotoxin is that the distribution of the toxin in the puffer fish is complex, and the distribution of the toxin in different puffer fish is also different. There are more than 120 species of puffer fish, many of which look similar on the outside, but the internal toxicity distribution is very different.
Some puffer fish have highly toxic internal organs and muscle parts, but some puffer fish, all over the body, even the belt meat are all poisonous, and no part can be eaten.
There are also some pufferfish, such as insect-striped oriental pufferfish, lead-spotted oriental pufferfish, these oriental pufferfish, the muscle is poisonous. When you can't identify its kind, you must not eat it!
Recently
In order to prevent and control puffer fish poisoning accidents,
To ensure the safety of consumers,
Former Ministry of Agriculture, State Food and Drug Administration
Conditionally liberalize the cultivation of redfin oriental pufferfish and
Processing and operation of the cultured 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 live puffer fish and whole unprocessed puffer fish is prohibited;
Food business units should earnestly perform the main responsibility of food safety, and the sales and processing of pufferfish products must be processed and inspected by qualified agricultural product processing enterprises in accordance with relevant standards, and must inspect and retain product inspection certificates and related tickets. Therefore, the legally farmed and edible puffer fish that can be purchased 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 processed by agricultural product processing enterprises that have not been approved by the state. The processing and production of live puffer fish and wild puffer fish by catering service units is an illegal act and will be punished by law.
Remind consumers
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”
Editor 丨 Zhong Xintong
Responsible editor 丨 禤志杰
Proofreader 丨 Zeng Weilei
Source丨Guangdong Release, New Express