Toxins in the context of this category are chemicals, plants or their parts, and animal parts that are poisonous to people when ingested in food or water.
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- Human Illness Associated with Harmful Algae Discusses the various fish and shellfish toxicities of humans caused by the animal's ingestion of toxic algae.
- CDC: Ciguatera Fish Poisoning Includes factsheet and publications.
- Harmful Algal Blooms and Biotoxins Factsheet on algal blooms and their effects on humans through affected fish and shellfish.
- Ricin Toxin from the Castor Bean Plant Scientific and medical article on the toxin and its effects.
- AmericanMushrooms.com: The Death Cap Mushroom (Amanita phalloides) Images, description, related mushrooms, and discussion of toxicity.
- American.edu: Blowfish and Trade Outline and overview of this subject.
- eMedicine - Toxicity, Tetrodotoxin Article by Theodore Benzer, MD, PhD.
- eMedicine - Toxicity, Mushrooms Article by Mary E Cataletto, MD.
- Bad Bug Book: Tetrodotoxin Pufferfish or Fugu poisoning. Includes cause, symptoms, prognosis, and outbreaks.
- Bad Bug Book: Various Shellfish-Associated Toxins Caused by consuming shellfish that have accumulated dinoflagellate toxins. Features cause, symptoms, associated foods, and outbreaks.
- Bad Bug Book: Mushroom Toxins Includes toxic substances and their effects, symptoms, diagnosis, descriptions of some poisonous mushrooms, and outbreaks.
- Bad Bug Book: Scombrotoxin Caused by the ingestion of foods that contain high levels of histamine. Includes cause, symptoms, associated foods, and outbreaks.
- Bad Bug Book: Ciguatera Fish Poisoning Caused by the consumption of subtropical and tropical marine finfish which have accumulated naturally occurring dinoflagellate toxins through their diet. Includes cause, associated fish, symptoms, and outbreaks.
- The Merck Manual: Poisoning Causes, symptoms, and signs of poisoning caused by eating plants or animals that contain a naturally occurring poison.
- eMedicine Health - Ricin Consumer health resource center providing information on the symptoms and treatment of ricin poisoning.
- Food Safety Research Information Office: Ciguatoxin Directory of factsheets, reports, press releases, and resources on the toxin.
- CDC: Harmful Algal Blooms Discusses the causes, symptoms, and prevention of several toxins carried by fish and shellfish.