You are here: Home / Pathogens and Contaminants / Natural Toxins / Scombrotoxins Resource List     Provides a brief discussion of scombrotoxins and access to related online resources. Resource areas include newsletters, reports, and fact sheets. On this page...General Information/FactsheetsReportsOrganizations/AgenciesDatabases/ListservesJournals/BooksNewsletters/Press ReleasesEducation General Information/Factsheets Food Safety Facts on Scombroid Poisoning Canadian Food Inspection Agency. Foodborne Pathogenic Microorganisms and Natural Toxins Handbook: Scombrotoxin FDA. Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition. New Guidelines Prevent Excessive Histamine Production in Bluefish and other Scombroid Fish (PDF) Virginia Cooperative Extension. Commerical Fish and Shellfish Technology. Prevent Histamine Poisoning in your Fish! (PDF) Louisiana State University Agricultural Center. Scombroid (Histamine) Poisoning (PDF) New Zealand Food Safety Authority. Seafood Safety: Scombroid Toxicity Seafood Network Information Center. Reports Application of Risk Assessment in the Fish Industry Food and Agriculture Organization. Development of a HACCP-based Strategy for the Control of Histamine for the Fresh Tuna Industry National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. National Marine Fisheries Service. Scombrotoxin in Seafood (PDF) New Zealand Institute for Crop & Food Research Limited     Conference/Forum: Performance of Histamine Test Kits for Applications to Seafood (DOC) Seafood Network Information Center.     Guidelines/Regulations: Compendium of Fish and Fishery Product Processes, Hazards, and Controls, Chapter 27: Scombrotoxin (Histamine) Formation National Seafood HACCP Alliance. Fish and Fisheries Products Hazards and Controls Guidance, Chapter 7: Scombrotoxin (Histamine) Formation - A Chemical Hazard (PDF) FDA. Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition. Sec. 540.525 Decomposition and Histamine Raw, Frozen Tuna and Mahi-Mahi; Canned Tuna; and Related Species FDA. Office of Regulatory Affairs.     Annual/Progress: Toxins and Allergies Research: Histamines in Fish State Government of Victoria. Department of Human Services. Understanding and Controlling Histamine Formation in Troll-Caught Albaore Tuna: A Review and Update of Preliminary Findings from the 1994 Season (PDF) Oregon Sea Grant. Databases Outbreak Alert Database - Scombrotoxin Outbreaks from 1990 - 2004 Center for Science in the Public Interest. Seafood HACCP Mailing List California Sea Grant Program. Journals/Books AGRICOLA - Article Citation Database USDA. National Agricultural Library. AGRICOLA - NAL Catalog USDA.National Agricultural Library. PubMED NIH. National Library of Medicine. Newsletters/Press Releases Cooked Tuna Could be Hazardous to Your Health CNN UT Researchers Seek Detector for Fish Toxin Tennessee Today. This document was created by Natasha Brown. Users are encouraged to provide feedback and comments. This document was created in Dec 2004; Updated in May 2007.

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