The Thai Food and Drug Administration has prohibited the serving of puffer fish after a recent spate of food poisoning. Vendors serving the fish could now face a maximum jail sentence of two years and ...

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Though the global fish industry has shown a robust growth, it is grappling with various challenges that can be a risk to food security and nutrition. Experts have raised the alarm on this development ...

A delicacy in Japanese cuisine, puffer fish (fugu) also contain a lethal toxin. Improperly prepared puffer fish can cause the person eating it to experience food poisoning and a swift death. Such a ...

Pufferfish, known for their unique ability to inflate and their potent neurotoxin, tetrodotoxin (TTX), are both fascinating and deadly. These creatures, with nearly 200 species, use their inflation ...

An elderly couple has died after eating poisonous pufferfish in Malaysia, prompting an appeal from their daughter for stronger laws to prevent others from suffering the same fate. Ng Chuan Sing and ...

Pufferfish can be served for human consumption as a delicacy called fugu. It is especially popular in Japan, but you may also see it available in other countries, including Korea, China, Singapore, ...

An elderly couple from Malaysia have died after consuming poisonous pufferfish, leading their family to call for stricter regulations on the dish. The couple, Ng Chuan Sing and Lim Siew Guan, had ...

This story could really blow up. The puffer fish is comically ugly but tasty enough that adventurous eaters ignore the fact that parts of it are poisonous. Now, researchers at Boston Children’s ...

When you are diving and see this slow-moving 15-inch-long fish, look but don’t touch! The puffer-fish has a very-deadly neurotoxin in its skin that is over 1,000 times more powerful than cyanide. This ...

A new study finds that puffer fish use non-toxic analogs of their famous defense poison for signalling and communication through smell, with implications for the study of their spawning and ...