Good seafood is one of the greatest pleasures in life, and among fish lovers, fugu is a rare treat. The pufferfish, a winter delicacy, has moderately firm white flesh and a mild flavor. Its culinary ...

Picture yourself wielding a knife over one of nature's most lethal creatures. One slip, one miscalculation, and you've just created a dish that could kill someone within hours. In Japan, fugu contains ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s clinical description of tetrodotoxin is as follows: “The consumption of toxic amounts of tetrodotoxin results primarily in neurologic and ...

Japanese authorities are on the hunt for a batch of deadly fish after toxic parts of the sea creature were accidentally put on sale. A supermarket in the city of Gamagori sold five packages of fugu ...

TOKYO-- A city in central Japan used its emergency loudspeaker system in an attempt to recall four packages of blowfish meat after discovering a fifth one contained the potentially deadly liver. No ...

The poisonous puffer fish, which inflates itself into a small balloon when caught, lives in most of the world’s oceans. But only in Japan, where it is called fugu, has it become a national tradition.

Officials in the central Japanese city of Gamagori are warning residents not to eat blowfish purchased from a local supermarket after potentially deadly parts of the fish were inadvertently sold. The ...