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Oregon Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning Outbreak Prompts Rapid Response
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These PSP toxins are not destroyed by freezing or cooking shellfish. Consuming toxic shellfish can cause PSP in humans and other mammals, including ...
Prevalence of Paralytic Shellfish Toxins in Marine Food Webs of Prince ...
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This 2.5-year project investigates the transfer of PSP toxins through the marine food web via focused sampling efforts in Kachemak Bay and Prince ...
Validating the Technique for Identifying Paralytic Shellfish Toxins
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Paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP) is a world-wide, sometimes fatal seafood poisoning caused by potent algal neurotoxins that accumulate in ...
[PDF] Prevalence of Paralytic Shellfish Toxins in the Marine Food Web of ...
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• During blooms, PSP toxins are readily transferred to zooplankton, invertebrates, forage & predatory fish. • Toxins are widespread and variable ...
NCCOS Funding Supports Tribal Shellfish Toxin Testing in Southwest ...
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PSP toxins measured in blue mussels, snails, and butter clams collected from King Cove, Sand Point, and Unalaska were frequently above the FDA limit ...
Advancing the Receptor Binding Assay for Multi-Species Monitoring of ...
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The Sitka Tribe of Alaska’s Environmental Research Laboratory has used the RBA to monitor PSTs at community harvest sites in southeast Alaska ...
Producing a new Reference Material for Paralytic Shellfish Toxin ...
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Saxitoxins, produced by species of harmful algal blooms (HABs), cause paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP) when contaminatedseafood is consumed. For ...
NCCOS Leads from Research to Application for Rapid Biotoxin Screening
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The Association of Official Analytical Chemists accepted the NCCOS RBA method for PSP/saxitoxin as an Official Method of Analysis in 2012 following a ...
Alaskan Tribal Communities Trained for Testing Paralytic Shellfish ...
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Elevated PSP levels have prompted the state to close most southeast Alaska commercial shellfishery areas. However, recreational and subsistence ...
NCCOS Funds $6.8M for New and Continuing Harmful Algal Bloom Research
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Both PSP and ASP are problems in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska, impacting commercial, recreational and tribal subsistence shellfish harvesting. A ...
Are Growth and Toxicity of the Dinoflagellate Alexandrium Controlled by ...
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PSP is known to impair physiological functions in bivalve molluscs and copepods. Saxitoxin can be transferred throughout the food web until it reaches ...
First Steps in Creating a Harmful Algal Bloom Forecast for the Kodiak ...
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Steve Kibler (NCCOS) deploying an instrument to collect hydrographic data from Chiniak Bay, Kodiak. The Kodiak Archipelago in Alaska historically has ...
Harmful Algal Blooms Event Response: Responding to Paralytic Shellfish ...
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During a 2010 PSP outbreak in Alaska, our emergency funding program allowed experts from Washington State to demonstrate the use of an enzyme-linked ...
Interannual Variability of PSP Toxicity in Eastern Maine: Testing the ...
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PSP toxin distribution in the EGOM remains poorly understood, despite the serious nature of the PSP in that region and its hydrographic connections to ...
Harmful Algal Bloom Detection Instrument Validation and Transition to ...
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Paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP) syndrome is a worldwide human health problem. PSP is caused by toxins of the marine dinoflagellate Alexandrium ...
The Columbia River Plume and Harmful Algal Blooms in the Pacific ...
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The first incidences of PSP in Washington State were documented in the Strait of Juan de Fuca in 1942 when Native American children died after eating ...
Protecting New Yorkers from Toxic Shellfish Poisoning with HAB Early ...
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PSP and DSP monitoring technologies were vetted and a DSP monitoring program protocol was proposed to the NYSDEC to protect human health. In addition ...
Training in Shellfish Toxin Screening Provided to Alaska Community
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In June 2010, five Alaskans exhibited signs of paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP) linked to eating shellfish tainted with the algal toxin, saxitoxin ...
Bloom dynamics of the red tide dinoflagellate Alexandrium fundyense in ...
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Paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP) is a recurrent and widespread problem in the Gulf of Maine (GOM) caused by the dinoflagellate Alexandrium ...
Alaska Toxic Algae Event Endangers Public Health
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PSP is a public health emergency, and the hospitalization of a man who ate clams dug from a public beach near Ketchikan led to a special state warning ...