New state equipment tests for 'emerging' shellfish toxin
The toxin appeared in higher levels this year in Hood Canal and elsewhere.
By Christopher Dunagan
Posted November 24, 2012 at 4:32 p.m.
SEATTLE ? State shellfish inspectors have armed themselves with new equipment to reduce future outbreaks of an "emerging" illness caused by poisonous shellfish.
Increasing attention is being focused on a toxin known as diarrhetic shellfish poison, or DSP. The toxin is produced by a type of plankton and becomes concentrated in filter-feeders, such as clams, oysters and mussels. Illnesses from
DSP were never documented in Washington state until last year, but now officials are racing to catch up with this growing health concern...
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