Is fish consumption safe?
Louisiana's vital seafood industry provides nearly 40% of domestic seafood production. Unlike Louisianans, most Americans do not enjoy fresh seafood, yet manage to eat over 4 billion pounds of seafood annually, most of it foreign, frozen, and fried! America's commercial fisheries now face crippling economic and environmental pressures from seafood imports, over-fishing, urban and agricultural wastewater runoff, harmful algal blooms, and coastal wetlands loss. As a result of these ecosystem stresses, seafood-borne disease now causes 37% of all foodborne illness in the United States. Despite recent advisories on high mercury-containing finfish consumption, seafood provides more than a third of the world with essential dietary protein, rich in cardiovascular-protective omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids. Louisiana and other coastal-state physicians can effectively curtail the rising threat of local seafood-borne disease outbreaks by supporting responsible coastal restoration and regulation of commercial fishing, and by recommending careful inspection, selection, and preparation of seafood.
Diaz
James H
JH
School of Public Health at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, USA.
D001906:Botulism / Q000139:chemically induced / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D036841:Ciguatera Poisoning / Q000139:chemically induced / Q000453:epidemiology*; D003014:Clostridium botulinum / Q000472:pathogenicity; D004787:Environmental Pollution / Q000009:adverse effects*; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D005506:Food Contamination; D015386:Hazardous Substances / Q000506:poisoning; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008145:Louisiana; D008387:Marine Toxins / Q000506:poisoning; D008630:Mercury Poisoning / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D012307:Risk Factors; D017747:Seafood / Q000506:poisoning*; D013779:Tetrodotoxin / Q000506:poisoning
D015386:Hazardous Substances; D008387:Marine Toxins; D013779:Tetrodotoxin; C034101:scombrotoxin