date:May 25, 2012
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) announced last week it had successfully moved away from the unreliable mouse bioassay to more accurate chemical methods in an effort to identify the presence of paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP) and lipophilic toxins in commercially harvested shellfish.
The food safety watchdog and Cefas (Centre for Environment, Fisheries, and Aquaculture Science) have spent years developing and refining LC-MS (Liquid Chromatographic Mass Spectrometric) and HPLC (High Performan