title: Monitoring the Presence of Domoic Acid in the Production Areas of Bivalve Molluscs.
abstract: Algal biotoxins, chemical compounds produced by some microscopic algae, constitute thephytoplankton. The mussels, feeding on phytoplankton, can accumulate these compounds to become themselves toxic. There have been several cases of food poisoning by consumption of contaminated shellfish. Such food poisoning have pushed our health care system to provide monitoring of shellfish in the framework of the monitoring plans carried out by AASSLL. In this paper we report the results obtained monitoring the presence of amnesic shellfish poisoning biotoxins, like domoic acid and its isomers, produced byPseudonitzschiaalgae. The analyses were carried out by using both the high-performance liquid chromatography-ultraviolet official method and an experimental method performed with a time-of-flight mass spectrometer (ESI-TOF). The 100% of samples analysed by the official method have always been below the limits of sensitivity (except one sample), and the 65% of samples analysed by ESI-TOF showed the presence of domoic acid.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Experimental Veterinary Medicine of Southern Italy , Portici (NA), Italy.
authors.forename: Rachele
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Rossi
authors.affiliation: Institute for Experimental Veterinary Medicine of Southern Italy , Portici (NA), Italy.
authors.forename: Olga
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Arace
authors.affiliation: Institute for Experimental Veterinary Medicine of Southern Italy , Portici (NA), Italy.
authors.forename: Maria Giovanna
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Buonomo
authors.affiliation: Institute for Experimental Veterinary Medicine of Southern Italy , Portici (NA), Italy.
authors.forename: Daniela
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Capozzo
authors.affiliation: Institute for Experimental Veterinary Medicine of Southern Italy , Portici (NA), Italy.
authors.forename: Vincenzo
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Castellano
authors.affiliation: Institute for Experimental Veterinary Medicine of Southern Italy , Portici (NA), Italy.
authors.forename: Samantha
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Imbimbo
authors.affiliation: Institute for Experimental Veterinary Medicine of Southern Italy , Portici (NA), Italy.
authors.forename: Vittorio
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Soprano
keywords: Bivalve molluscs; Domoic acid; Production areas