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<strong>Seafood</strong> Choices: Balancing Benefits and Risks<br />

http://www.nap.edu/catalog/11762.html<br />

0 SEAFOOD ChOICES<br />

centrations that can invoke allergic-type reactions in susceptible consumers<br />

of raw or cooked fish. Cooking does not diminish these toxins. The primary<br />

fish involved include tunas and mackerels from the Scombridae<br />

family of fish—thus the name—and related species mahi-mahi (Coryphaena<br />

hippurus), escolar (Lepidocybium fla obrunneum), and others. The common<br />

feature distinguishing these fish is a higher proportion of free amino acids,<br />

i.e., histidine, lysine, and ornithine, naturally occurring in the muscle tissue,<br />

which can be decarboxylated to histamine, cadaverine, and putrascine. This<br />

conversion is driven by temperatures that allow growth of certain bacteria<br />

to generate the decarboxylating enzymes. Although regulatory action levels<br />

for histamine content (

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