The Thai Food and Drug Administration has prohibited the serving of puffer fish after a recent spate of food poisoning. Vendors serving the fish could now face a maximum jail sentence of two years and ...

Pufferfish carry one of the most dangerous natural toxins known, and unlike most food-safety hazards, there is no medical countermeasure once it takes hold. Hong Kong’s Centre for Food Safety states ...

A delicacy in Japanese cuisine, puffer fish (fugu) also contain a lethal toxin. Improperly prepared puffer fish can cause the person eating it to experience food poisoning and a swift death. Such a ...

If a pufferfish and a human ate the same dish, would it taste the same?Of course, we cannot ask a pufferfish, "How was it?" ...

Public health officials in Hong Kong have investigated a number of recent food poisoning cases linked to a range of different foods. Earlier this week, the Centre for Health Protection Almost 30 cases ...

A man is in a critical condition in a hospital in Hong Kong after consuming puffer fish and suffering suspected tetrodotoxin poisoning. The 65-year-old man developed facial numbness, general weakness ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. An 83-year-old woman has died after eating a puffer fish in Johor, ...

The couple’s daughter, Ng Ai Lee, said her father purchased the puffer fish — a delicacy known to contain extremely potent poisons — from a local fish shop on March 25. “My parents have been buying ...

My grandmother, who’s from Coventry, used to make me bubble and squeak. She’d make it with sausages and cabbage and whatnot. When she was 20, she met my Chinese-Jamaican grandfather, and when she came ...