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Q&A If you fully cook live scallops, can their natural toxin still cause paralytic shellfish poisoning?

Saxitoxins are the mechanism for paralytic shellfish poisoning. They are not produced by the creatures, but absorbed from passing blooms of microscopic creatures. They are not eliminated by cookin...

posted 3y ago by dsr‭

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#1: Initial revision by user avatar dsr‭ · 2021-07-17T12:18:05Z (over 3 years ago) 
[Saxitoxins](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saxitoxin) are the mechanism for paralytic shellfish poisoning. They are not produced by the creatures, but absorbed from passing blooms of microscopic creatures.

They are not eliminated by cooking.