Toxicity of adductor muscles from the purple hinge rock scallop (Crassadoma gigantea) along the Pacific coast of North America.
Mouse bioassay results of rock scallops occasionally monitored by official agencies of British Columbia, Washington and California before and/or after algal blooms from 1980-1990 revealed that 24%, 38% and 87% of adductor muscles, whole body and viscera, respectively, were unsafe (greater than or equal to 80 micrograms saxitoxin equivalents/100 g tissue) for human consumption. The safety of adductor muscles could not be predicted from corresponding toxicity levels of the viscera but the absence of detectable toxin could.
Institute for Food Science and Technology, University of Washington, Seattle 98195.
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D000818:Animals; D001681:Biological Assay; D001955:British Columbia; D002140:California; D051379:Mice; D008974:Mollusca; D008978:Mollusk Venoms / Q000032:analysis / Q000633:toxicity*; D009132:Muscles / Q000737:chemistry; D010140:Pacific Ocean; D012758:Shellfish / Q000633:toxicity*; D014861:Washington
D008978:Mollusk Venoms