Marine toxins are natural poisons possessed by fish and shellfish and cause food poisoning. Marine toxins are not only found in fish and shellfish, but also in microalgae or marine algae such as marine microorganisms and plankton, which are bio-concentrated by the food chain and cause poisoning in humans who eat them. In Japan, food poisoning, mainly caused by pufferfish poison (tetrodotoxin) or bivalve shellfish (oysters, scallops, etc.), occurs every year and those toxins are regulated and controlled by the Food Sanitation Act. Furthermore, global climatic changes have been accompanied by changes in the distribution of marine poisons, and the areas where food poisoning occurs are also changing. Therefore research on various marine toxins is in progress.
We provide a variety of reagents and kits related to marine toxins, including okadaic acid, paritoxin, and ciguatoxin.