Fish Incriminated

Further experiments will be necessary with fish incriminated in histamine poisoning outbreaks to confirm the presence and identity of any potentiators of histamine toxicity. 

Most marine biotoxications are caused by fishes, but turtles and mammals have been incriminated in rare instances. A tentative classification of ichthyotoxic fishes is as follows ... 

Ichthyootoxic Fishes. Those fish that produce a poison which is generally restricted to the gonads of the fish. The musculature and other parts of the fish are usually edible. There is a definite relationship between gonadal activity and toxin production. Fishes in this group are mainly freshwater species, but a few marine species have been incriminated. 

Several types of non-scombroid fish can also be incriminated in outbreaks of scombroid poisoning. Thus, scombroid poisoning is a... 

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