New research suggests that long-term exposure to very low concentrations of chlorpyrifos, a widely used insecticide, can ...

Residents on a small island off the coast of Gunsan, North Jeolla, were hospitalized late Tuesday after suffering poisoning symptoms from pufferfish they had cooked and eaten themselves, local ...

Tetrodotoxin (TTX) is best known as the neurotoxin of the puffer fish, though it also appears in a range of other marine species. You might remember it from an episode of The Simpsons involving a ...

(CN) — A federal judge this week rejected a plan approved by the U.S. Forest Service to drop poison over Montana’s Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness in an effort to eradicate invasive rainbow trout and ...

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Pufferfish can be served for human consumption as a delicacy called fugu. It is especially popular in Japan, but you may also see it available in other countries, including Korea, China, Singapore, ...