Toxins Food and Water Borne Conditions and Diseases

Toxins

Toxins in the context of this category are chemicals, plants or their parts, and animal parts that are poisonous to people when ingested in food or water.

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• - Factsheet on algal blooms and their effects on humans through affected fish and shellfish.
  
• - Discusses the causes, symptoms, and prevention of several toxins carried by fish and shellfish.
  
• - From the US Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine.
  
• - Caused by consuming shellfish that have accumulated dinoflagellate toxins. Features cause, symptoms, associated foods, and outbreaks.
  
• - Includes cause, effects on people, distribution, scope of the problem, and prevention.
  
• - Includes cause, symptoms, and prevention.
  
• - Directory of factsheets, reports, press releases, and resources on the toxin.
  
• - Scientific and medical article on the toxin and its effects.
  
• - Plants poisonous to livestock, pets and humans in Canada. Also has links to other poisonous plant resources.
  
• - Pufferfish or Fugu poisoning. Includes cause, symptoms, prognosis, and outbreaks.
  
• - Article by Mary E Cataletto, MD.
  
• - Includes toxic substances and their effects, symptoms, diagnosis, descriptions of some poisonous mushrooms, and outbreaks.
  
• - Description of toxic species and the symptoms their toxins produce.
  
• - Describes the occurrence, manifestations, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of the disease.
  
• - Images and discussion of toxicity.
  
• - Causes, symptoms, and signs of poisoning caused by eating plants or animals that contain a naturally occurring poison.
  
• - Caused by the ingestion of foods that contain high levels of histamine. Includes cause, symptoms, associated foods, and outbreaks.
  
• - Consumer health resource center providing information on the symptoms and treatment of ricin poisoning.
  
• - Outline and overview of this subject.
  
• - Features cause, symptoms, and prevention.
  
• - Discusses dioxins in the food chain.
  
• - This toxic dinoflagellate can cause symptoms in people exposed to water contaminated by the toxin. Information about the organism and links to technical and other material on this organism.
  
• - Discussion board for ciguatera fish poisoning.
  
• - A listing of papers of scientific information about the animal and human toxicology of vascular plants of the world. From the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition.
  
• - Directory of toxic plants and herbs and their effects.
  
• - Article by Theodore Benzer, MD, PhD.
  
• - Searchable database of plants toxic to humans and animals.
  
• - Discusses the various fish and shellfish toxicities of humans caused by the animal's ingestion of toxic algae.
  
• - Includes factsheet and publications.
  
• - Caused by the consumption of subtropical and tropical marine finfish which have accumulated naturally occurring dinoflagellate toxins through their diet. Includes cause, associated fish, symptoms, and outbreaks.
  
• - Features cause, symptoms, treatment, and possible antidotes.
  
• - Searchable database from the Colorado State College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
  
  

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