Various species of algae can produce marine toxins under certain circumstances. These
toxins can then accumulate in shellfish such as mussels, oysters and scallops. When these …

Natural toxins in food and feed are considered important food safety issues of growing
concern, in particular mycotoxins, phycotoxins and plant toxins. Most scientific developments …

Abstract The IOC-ICES-PICES Harmful Algal Event Database (HAEDAT) was used to
describe the diversity and spatiotemporal distribution of harmful algal events along the …

The last few years have brought about many changes in the field of marine and freshwater
toxins, with advances in analytical technology and the realization that these toxins are a …

Toxin profiles were determined in phytoplankton cell concentrates and Greenshell mussels
(Perna canaliculus) exposed to a dinoflagellate bloom dominated by Dinophysis acuta and …

Azaspiracids (AZAs) are a group of lipophilic polyether toxins implicated in incidents of
shellfish poisoning in humans, particularly in northern Europe. In an attempt to establish the …

In a recent survey of paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP) toxins in Gymnodinium catenatum
Graham extracts, using LC with postcolumn oxidation and fluorescence detection, three …

The marine diatom Pseudo-nitzschia galaxiae Lundholm et Moestrup has been recently
described from Mexican and Australian plankton. In this paper, we illustrate the considerable …

The potential of solid phase extraction (SPE) clean-up has been assessed to reduce matrix
effects (signal suppression or enhancement) in the liquid chromatography-tandem mass …

Mussels sampled in the spring of 2002 and 2003 from Skjer, a location in Sognefjord,
Norway, tested positive in the mouse bioassay for lipophilic toxins. The symptoms, which …