title: Is shellfish consumption safe?
abstract: Louisiana provides nearly 40% of domestic seafood production. America's commercial fisheries, especially coastal shellfish 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. Louisiana and other coastal-state physicians can effectively curtail the rising threat of local shellfish-borne disease outbreaks by supporting responsible coastal restoration and regulation of commercial shell-fishing, especially oyster fishing, and by recommending careful selection and preparation of all shellfish and crustaceans.
authors.affiliation: School of Public Health, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, USA.
authors.forename: James H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Diaz
mesh_terms: D020261:Arsenic Poisoning / Q000517:prevention & control; D003967:Diarrhea / Q000209:etiology; D005517:Foodborne Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006801:Humans; D017669:Mercury Compounds / Q000506:poisoning; D008630:Mercury Poisoning / Q000517:prevention & control; D009498:Neurotoxins / Q000506:poisoning; D017747:Seafood / Q000506:poisoning*; D057096:Shellfish Poisoning
chemical_list: D017669:Mercury Compounds; D009498:Neurotoxins