Defrente had posted this on Feb. 3. Crappy translation.
VEDA IMPLEMENTING HEALTH TO RETAILERS OF BIVALVE BY RED TIDE IN PEÑASCO
The injunction is for customer oysters, clams, geoduck, mussels, whelks, scallops, callus margarita, kickstand, paw mule, lichidas, and other bivalve mollusk not expend
By: Ivan Bravo
PTO. PEÑASCO, SON.
In the presence of harmful algal bloom presented in San Felipe, Baja California, the health authority of that State has implemented health ban harvesting, marketing and consumption of bivalve molluscs, Health Regulation Unit is informed retailers of bivalve molluscs in this Puerto.
By a memorandum was extended not selling bivalve molluscs, traders said, which is alerted to the presence of paralytic toxin caused by the dinoflagellate Gymnodinium catenatum and stay at his current toxigenita since January 13.
"It should refer to the 27 January of this year we are notified of the presence of the toxin in geoduck from San Jorge Bay so this Health Authority, provides temporary precautionary ban until samples show that bivalve molluscs monitoring results in the areas, the toxin in question is within the permissible limits considered in NOM 242 SSA1 2009, "reads the memo.
Given the above precaution, do not sell customer oysters, clams, geoduck, mussels, whelks, scallops, callus margarita, kickstand, paw mule, lichidas, and other bivalve mollusk, "is important you mention that if found the toxin is not destroyed by heat, lemon or vinegar, which runs the same risk of poisoning if you eat raw or cooked, or if only you take the broth, "he explains.
Since last January 3 Department of Biological Oceanography Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education of Ensenada (CICESE) reported on a red tide that extends over more than 80 kilometers on the north coast of the Sea of Cortez, which caused the deaths of hundreds of marine mammals.
This event has no antecedent scientific, healthcare and fisheries in the last 20 years in Baja California, so the phenomenon has attracted the attention of the international scientific community by mass poisoning that causes paralytic marine species and their impact on the ecosystem navy.