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05-30-2006, 05:52 AM
Updated Sat. May. 27 2006 2:01 PM ET
Canadian Press
TORONTO -- While it seems hard to imagine the warning is necessary, Health Canada is urging people to limit their consumption of lobster tomalley - the green goo most people quickly scrap away as they get ready to sink their teeth into succulent lobster meat.
Turns out the tomalley, which serves as a liver and pancreas for a lobster, can sometimes contain a toxin known as paralytic shellfish poison. If ingested in large amounts, the toxin can cause tingling and numbing of the arms and legs, headaches, dizziness and nausea. In rare cases paralysis, respiratory difficult and even death can occur, if medical help isn't procured.
Adults should limit themselves to the tomalley of no more than two lobsters a day, the department warns, while one a day should be the limit for children.
"Although not widely consumed, tomalley is considered by some to be a delicacy," a statement from Health Canada notes.
For them, there is some good news: canned tomalley don't pose this risk.
There's even better news for lobster lovers who forgo tomalley: Health Canada recommends no limits on the consumption of the meat of the spiny crustaceans.
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060527/lobster_tomalley_060527/20060527?hub=Health
<---- love the lobster, not a tomalley fan... at all.
Canadian Press
TORONTO -- While it seems hard to imagine the warning is necessary, Health Canada is urging people to limit their consumption of lobster tomalley - the green goo most people quickly scrap away as they get ready to sink their teeth into succulent lobster meat.
Turns out the tomalley, which serves as a liver and pancreas for a lobster, can sometimes contain a toxin known as paralytic shellfish poison. If ingested in large amounts, the toxin can cause tingling and numbing of the arms and legs, headaches, dizziness and nausea. In rare cases paralysis, respiratory difficult and even death can occur, if medical help isn't procured.
Adults should limit themselves to the tomalley of no more than two lobsters a day, the department warns, while one a day should be the limit for children.
"Although not widely consumed, tomalley is considered by some to be a delicacy," a statement from Health Canada notes.
For them, there is some good news: canned tomalley don't pose this risk.
There's even better news for lobster lovers who forgo tomalley: Health Canada recommends no limits on the consumption of the meat of the spiny crustaceans.
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060527/lobster_tomalley_060527/20060527?hub=Health
<---- love the lobster, not a tomalley fan... at all.