Women who eat too much shellfish before pregnancy, particularly crabs and lobsters, may increase their chance of having babies who are small for their gestational age (SGA), report French scientists in an article posted online 24 October 2007 ahead of print in Environmental Health. Eating fish, however, seems to have the opposite effect. The findings further fuel the debate over how much and wh...

INTEREST IN POISONOUS FISHES has intensified greatly in recent years. World Wat II brought many Americans and Europeans to tropical areas of the world where fish poisoning is common. Also, interest in the welfare of native populations of the Pacific islands has developed widely, and there is an impression that fish poisoning is increasing. In spite of an extensive literature, there is considera...

Considering the importance of researching the bacteriological quality of seafood, the following study aimed to make a brief overview on the occurrence of Escherichia coli in marine fish and shellfish, and to discuss the sanitary importance that the isolation of this enterobacteria represents to public health.

?-glucan is considered as an effective immunostimulant because of its binding capacity to different receptors on leukocytes leading the stimulation immune responses including bactericidal activity, cytokine productivity, and survival fit ability at cellular levels. In response cell surface receptors, stimulates release cytokines chemokines. It has been found that these signaling proteins eventu...

OBJECTIVE To examine the association of total animal protein intake and protein derived from different dietary sources (meat; fish and shellfish; eggs; milk products) with global and abdominal obesity among adults in Luxembourg. DESIGN Binary logistic regression analysis was used to assess the relationship between animal protein intake (as a percentage of total energy intake) and global obesi...

Azaspiracid-1 (AZA-1) is a newly identified phycotoxin that accumulates in commercially important bivalve molluscs harvested in several European countries and causes severe human intoxications. Molluscan shellfish are known vectors for accumulation and subsequent transfer of phycotoxins such as brevetoxin and domoic acid through various trophic levels within food webs. Finfish can also accumula...