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Top 10 Banned Foods Around the World
By siliconindia
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Friday, 19 August 2011, 00:18 IST |
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Puffer Fish
Known as Fugu in Asian countries ad blowfish otherwise is banned in many countries as the internal organs and a few body parts are highly poisonous. If you eat a wrong part of this fish or consume a poisonous part of the fish, you are likely to die from tetrodotoxin- a neurotoxin that destroys body's nerve tissue paralyzing the body and causing asphyxiation.
In 1603-1868 the Tokugawa shogunate prohibited the consumption of Fugu, but this law died down as the shogunate's power decreased. In the European Union, selling or consuming this fish is strictly prohibited. In the U.S., it is illegal to sell, harvest, or serve the fish without having a license to do so. This was enacted in 2002.
