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Japanese company mixes toxic blowfish organs into 
seafood shipments 

NIIGATA -- A seafood processing firm in Niigata Prefecture recently mixed deadly toxic "fugu" blowfish ovaries into shipments of soft roe sent to at least eight wholesalers in three cities, the prefecture announced on Feb. 27.
  • According to the prefecture's hygiene division, Maruto Fresh Fish Co. in the city of Murakami packed 60 Styrofoam boxes with 3 kilograms of soft blowfish roe each on Feb. 22.
The toxic organs were discovered by one of the Niigata wholesalers on the morning of Feb. 27. Workers unpacking the box of soft roe noticed that some of the product was tinged with red and yellow. They cut open the organs and found that they were actually the highly poisonous ovaries of the blowfish, not soft roe.
According to Niigata Prefecture, the ovaries from one "fugu" blowfish contain enough toxin to kill five adult humans.