Environmental Toxins
The term "environmental toxin" is often used.
In these contexts, it can sometimes explicitly include contaminants that are man-made, which contradicts most formal definitions of the term "toxin". Because of this, when encountering the word "toxin" outside of microbiological contexts, it is important to confirm what the researcher means by the use of the term. The toxins from food chains which may be dangerous to human health include:
- Paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP),
- Amnesic shellfish poisoning (ASP),
- Diarrheal shellfish poisoning (DSP),
- Neurotoxic shellfish poisoning (NSP),
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