Biotoxin outbreak impacting California coast sea life

The spread of algal blooms along stretches of the California’s Central Coast has produced an outbreak of a deadly biotoxin, and resulted in the deaths of large numbers of marine animals.

Scientists have identified the marine biotoxin domoic acid as the culprit in the outbreak. Domoic acid is produced by algae and accumulates in shellfish […]

August 29th, 2014 | Category: Food industry | Tags: , , , , , | Comments are closed

Unraveling acronyms: What are ASP, DSP and PSP?

Whether it’s ASP, DSP or PSP, it all comes down to shellfish and biotoxins.

Shellfish poisoning can occur when shellfish contaminated with any of a number of marine toxins are consumed. The individual toxins can lead to a range of conditions and symptoms.

It’s important to remember the algae that produce these toxins are usually […]

December 13th, 2013 | Category: Food industry | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Comments are closed

Monday links: ANSR, paralytic shellfish poisoning and cattle genetics

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Neogen launches ANSRTM for Listeria – Neogen

ANSR for Listeria is the newest test for our revolutionary molecular pathogen platform. The new test can definitively detect Listeria spp. after only […]

August 6th, 2012 | Category: Agriculture, Animal safety, Corporate news, Food industry, Genomics (Agrigenomics), Life sciences | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments are closed