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A comparison of methods for diarrhoeic shellfish poison detection
P M Gucci1, A P Serse, A M Coccia
1Laboratory of Environmental Hygiene-Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy.
Toxicology Letters
|October 1, 1994
Abstract:
Samples of diarrhoeic shellfish poison (DSP) mussels from several parts of the Italian Adriatic coastline were extracted and tested according to a number of different methods presently available, i.e. Yasumoto's mouse biotest, Kat's biotest, the ELISA test and the HPLC method. Results were compared for toxic levels detected in each sample. While a common qualitative result (toxic/non-toxic) was given by all the methods, no clear quantitative agreement was found. The differences between methods and consequent lack of agreement in results are discussed.