FDA WARNS OF CONTAMINATED GULF COAST SEAFOOD

Discovery follows outbreaks of illness in D.C. and St. Louis The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning seafood processors that some consumers have recently become ill after consuming fish carrying the ciguatera toxin. The illness is known as ciguatera fish poisoning. The toxic fish were harvested in the Northern Gulf of Mexico, near the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary, which is located in federal waters south of the Texas-Louisiana coastline. FDA had consider

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