Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Another Washington waterway is closed for shellfish harvesting. The Washington State Department of Health says it discovered ...

FILE - Grasses and yearling oysters, growing on the large "mother" shells planted throughout the bed, are barely covered by a thin layer of water at low tide on May 1, 2015, in Willapa Bay near ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. People should avoid eating sport-caught mussels, oysters, clams and scallops in San Luis Obispo County until further notice, the ...

Authorities in Oregon have closed the entire state's coastline after an “unprecedented” outbreak of shellfish poisoning led to 20 people being struck down. The illnesses were caused by saxitoxin, a ...

This year, worries of food poisoning via shellfish toxins have been on the rise, and so have the number of victims. Shellfish sold on the market are completely safe, but caution is required when ...

New Zealand Food Safety (NZFS) is advising the public not to collect or consume shellfish gathered from the Taranaki coast due to the presence of paralytic shellfish toxins. “Routine tests on mussels ...

Seafood lovers should steer clear of shellfish from Oregon and Washington state because of possible contamination with a paralyzing toxin, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has warned. Science X ...

Kassim, pictured here with samples taken for the second round of testing, says PD mussels and other shellfish are now safe for consumption. – BERNAMA filepic SEREMBAN: Mussels and other shellfish from ...

A health warning has been issued after high levels of the naturally occurring toxin, Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning (PSP), were found during sampling of shellfish in part of the eastern Bay of Plenty.

State officials have closed beaches in West Seattle and Vashon Island to recreational shellfish harvesting, after detecting unsafe levels of a potentially deadly toxin in the marine animals, Public ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - State health officials say a man who ate clams from a beach near Ketchikan on Sunday developed symptoms characteristic of paralytic shellfish poisoning. Samples from the clam ...