| diarrhetic shellfish poisoning by okadaic acid esters from brown crabs (cancer pagurus) in norway. | in 2002 several hundred people were taken ill after eating self-harvested brown crabs (cancer pagurus) in the southern part of norway. the symptoms were similar to diarrhetic shellfish poisoning (dsp) although with a somewhat delayed onset. this happened at the same time as an unusual early bloom of dinophysis acuta had lead to high amounts of dsp toxins in blue mussels (mytilus edulis) in the same area. the proposed cause of the intoxication was that crabs had accumulated toxins by eating blue ... | 2005 | 16153454 |