Domoic Acid — A Weird Foodborne Toxin

You really don’t want this biotoxin in your food

Karen Constable
5 min readMar 22

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No one likes food poisoning…. all that vomiting and diarrhoea. But food poisoning doesn’t just cause gastrointestinal symptoms. Here’s the story of a food-borne toxin that causes food poisoning with very odd — and distressing — symptoms.

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Karen Constable

I keep you up to date with food integrity news (food safety and food fraud). Creator of the ultra-popular Food Fraud Risk Information Trello board.