Fuchsia snail can not be eaten. Fukushu snail is the intermediate host of the Guangzhou tubular nematode. Human infections are mainly caused by raw or semi-raw consumption of intermediate hosts (e.g., Fukushu snails) and transferring hosts, resulting in guangzhou tubular nematode disease.

Guangzhou tube nematode disease is a kind of larval migratory disease, which mainly invades the central nervous system of human beings and causes eosinophilic meningoencephalitis or meningitis.

In June 2006, a restaurant in Beijing processed Fukushou snails without thorough heating, resulting in the snail meat of the guangzhou tube nematode not killed, which led to the outbreak of guangzhou tube nematode disease in Beijing.

The snail is also known as the big bottle snail and apple snail. Native to the Amazon River Basin in South America, it was introduced into Taiwan in the 1970s, and in the 1980s, as a food, it was introduced to Japan, the Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand and other Asian countries. 1981, it was introduced into Guangdong, and since 1984, it has been widely cultivated and rapidly spread to Guangxi, Fujian, Hainan, Guizhou, Zhejiang, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Hunan, Hubei, Jiangxi and other places. Fusiliers have the characteristics of strong adaptability, strong reproduction ability, large food intake and rapid growth.

The snail is an aquatic animal with a wide and varied diet, dominated by plants, of which rice is the main crop it harms. Fukushou snail can feed on 15 kinds of common crops such as wild rice, lotus root and cucumber, and it also prefers to feed on the shady and wet habitats of Tsishitsui, rhododendron, water chestnut and other aquatic vegetables, so it is a big danger to aquatic plants. Fukushu snail is one of the world's 100 pernicious alien invasive species, and is also included in the first batch of 16 invasive alien species in China, "one of the most harmful alien species".