Pufferfish, which contain a dangerous neurotoxin tetrodotoxin, is not allowed to be sold in Malaysia, said health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.
This news comes in the wake of reports that an elderly woman in Johor died of poisoning last Saturday after eating cooked pufferfish with her husband.Her husband is still receiving treatment in the Intensive Care Unit. According to The Star, the couple’s daughter, Ng Ai Lee, 51, said her father is still in a coma and the hospital is trying to treat the infections in his body.
Her father allegedly bought the fish from a fishmonger they’d known for years, so he didn’t think twice about buying it.Ng Ai Lee told The Star Dr Hisham said data from the Disease Control Division of the Ministry of Health showed that 58 pufferfish poisoning incidents involving 18 deaths were reported in Malaysia between 1985 and March 2023.
Do we have pufferfish in Malaysian waters? According to the Fisheries Department, the commonly caught pufferfish are from the Lagocephalusia species which are banana pufferfish, including Lagocephalus wheeleri, Lagocephalus spadiceus, and Lagocephalus lunaris .
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