Group Award for Leveraging Activities - 2001 FDA Science Forum

Board D09a

Human Illness from Seafood Toxins: Outbreak Investigation
S. Hall¹, P.P. Eilers¹, S.M. Conrad¹, S.M. Musser¹, M. Poli², ¹CFSAN, FDA, Washington DC 20204, ²USAMRIID, Frederick MD 21702

Human consumers can and do become seriously ill when they consume seafood contaminated with natural toxins. While we strive to avoid all human illnesses due to such seafood toxins, those illnesses that occur provide important opportunities to learn and improve our regulatory programs. This poster describes some of our work on outbreaks of paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP) in Washington state and neurotoxic shellfish poisoning (NSP) in Florida.