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Don’t eat Dungeness crab, California health department warns
- nkurz 11y agoI realize this is niche within niche, but having just eaten California abalone last night I wondered if it was affected as well. The answer seems to be no, that since abalone graze on mature seaweed, they do not have elevated levels of the domoic acid produced by pseudo-nitzschia: http://blog.michaelscateringsb.com/cooking_on_the_american_r/2015/06/cultured-abalone-and-the-red-tide.html http://blog.michaelscateringsb.com/cooking_on_the_american_r... I'm not quite sure how to square this with reports of massive die-offs of abalone in caused by algal blooms in previous years: http://news.ucdavis.edu/search/news_detail.lasso?id=10897 http://news.ucdavis.edu/search/news_detail.lasso?id=10897 It's a different toxin, but why would they accumulate one toxin and not the other? Or maybe they are just more susceptible one? Abalone are mighty tasty snails, by the way. We did these coated with flour and black pepper, dipped in egg, dredged in panko, then fried in olive oil.