18, netizens in Wenchang, a marketplace photographed a stallholder selling poisonous crabs
Local municipal supervisory office: will go to the market to investigate
"Today in the town's market wandering around, found that an aquatic products stalls are selling poisonous Zhengzhi Aijie crab!" Because of the recent Internet rumors "blue ring octopus" mixed into the hot pot dishes, in a social platform, a Hainan Wenchang netizen on January 18th released a video, quickly attracted attention.
19 morning upstream news reporter contacted the netizen posted Mr. Fu, verified that he was in Hainan Wenchang Dongjiao market to see the sale of suspected straight Aijie crab stalls. According to Mr. Fu, "I myself did not know before the upright Aijie crab, but also to see a netizen posted to recognize, then I reminded the boss that this crab is poisonous, can not be sold ah!"
"But the boss is very confident that every day in the sale, never heard customers buy back to eat poisoned, the boss also emphasized that this crab is called rouge crab." Mr. Fu said he was a Wenchang local, but in reality had never heard of anyone being poisoned, "The Internet is saying it's poisonous, what's going on?"
With Mr. Fu the same doubts and Wenchang City Market Supervision Administration, the director of the Dongjiao. 19 morning, he received the upstream news reporter reflected the situation, said that he had never heard of local people eating crab poisoning, "We do not know too much about this kind of crab, if it is on the list of prohibited sales, certainly will not let the vendor to sell. We will immediately go to the market to check."
The upstream news reporter contacted the science V Zhang Xu, who specializes in crab, he and his team members are currently commissioned by the Hainan Dongzhai Harbor National Nature Reserve, which is carrying out a 1-year survey of the diversity of crabs, and is very knowledgeable about the crabs in the Hainan area, and he confirmed to the reporter after seeing the video that, "It's just right. "
Zhang Xu photographed in Sanya, Hainan, upright love clean crab
Haikou, a citizen accidentally eaten toxic crab hospitalized
Zhang Xu introduced the crab itself does not have the ability to produce and manufacture toxins, the toxins in its body mainly from the accumulation of food, the majority of toxic crabs mostly algae or shellfish for food, when it ate poisonous algae or shellfish, the toxins will be accumulated in its body, with tetrodotoxin and clam and mussel toxins dominating.
"In China's Fujian, Guangdong and Hainan, the upright Ajisai crab and another poisonous fine-striped Ajisai crab, which are often sold as bread crabs, have not been recorded as fatal, although poisoning has been reported occasionally." Zhang Xu said a large number of cases have shown that symptoms of poisoning appear within three hours after eating the crabs, accompanied by nausea, followed by severe vomiting and diarrhea, as well as dizziness, easy sleepiness, weakness of the limbs, numbness of the lips, and muscle paralysis.
The upstream news reporter noted that in May 2020, "Hainan Special Zone Newspaper" has reported, Hainan Cancer Hospital emergency department received a 40-year-old citizen Zhang, is because of the mistake will be just love clean crab as a bread crab to buy home "taste", resulting in serious food poisoning.
In April 2021, local netizens in Zhanjiang, Guangdong Province, also reported that two residents of Nanshan Town, Xuwen County, mistakenly ate another toxic fan crabs, "copper casting cooked if the crab," resulting in serious poisoning, was sent to the ICU rescue.
"Hainan Special Zone News" related reports
Expert advice: do not try strange crabs
In recent years in microblogging, small red book, B station and other social platforms, there has been a netizen or video blogger posts claiming to accidentally eat or almost accidentally eat the righteous love clean crab, but the misuse of the person did not show symptoms of toxicity, which was then in 2017 or "Museum gentleman" of the famous science V Zhang Chenliang in response to similar questions from netizens, clearly said, Zhengzhi Aijie crab is not poisonous, decided on its food, food toxic it is poisonous, food is not toxic it is not toxic. This crab is best not eat."
Zhang Xu also warned that "some studies have shown that certain seasons have toxic algae or shellfish population growth, will make this period of time in the crab body toxin levels elevated."
Zhang Xu said that of the 530 recorded cases of crab-eating poisoning around the world, there were still 37 deaths, and the amount of fatalities is usually related to the amount consumed.
So how quickly can you tell the difference between toxic crabs? Zhang Xu introduced, usually these toxic crabs have a characteristic: shell and thick and hard, chelipeds thick, finger points are usually black, of course, this is not an absolute basis, "for their own safety, it is still recommended that we do not be curious to try those strange crabs, but choose to eat those more common crabs."
Upstream News reporter Tang Hao