caa a22 4500 467882053 CHVBK 20180406152723.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20060901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10393-006-0032-x doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10393-006-0032-x Hazards Associated with the Consumption of Sea Turtle Meat and Eggs: A Review for Health Care Workers and the General Public [Elektronische Daten] [A. Aguirre, Susan Gardner, Jesse Marsh, Stephen Delgado, Colin Limpus, Wallace Nichols] Sea turtle products (e.g., meat, adipose tissue, organs, blood, eggs) are common food items for many communities worldwide, despite national regulations in some countries prohibiting such consumption. However, there may be hazards associated with this consumption due to the presence of bacteria, parasites, biotoxins, and environmental contaminants. Reported health effects of consuming sea turtles infected with zoonotic pathogens include diarrhea, vomiting, and extreme dehydration, which occasionally have resulted in hospitalization and death. Levels of heavy metals and organochlorine compounds measured in sea turtle edible tissues exceed international food safety standards and could result in toxic effects including neurotoxicity, kidney disease, liver cancer, and developmental effects in fetuses and children. The health data presented in this review provide information to health care providers and the public concerning the potential hazards associated with sea turtle consumption. Based on past mortality statistics from turtle poisonings, nursing mothers and children should be particularly discouraged from consuming all sea turtle products. We recommend that individuals choose seafood items lower in the food chain that may have a lower contaminant load. Dissemination of this information via a public health campaign may simultaneously improve public health and enhance sea turtle conservation by reducing human consumption of these threatened and endangered species. Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2006 sea turtle nationallicence human health nationallicence contaminants nationallicence bacteria nationallicence parasites nationallicence Aguirre A. Wildlife Trust, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA aut Gardner Susan Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste, S.C., La Paz, BCS, Mexico aut Marsh Jesse Seafood Watch Program, Monterey Bay Aquarium, 886 Cannery Row, 93940, Monterey, CA, USA aut Delgado Stephen Department of Life Sciences Communication, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA aut Limpus Colin Queensland Turtle Research, Capalaba, Australia aut Nichols Wallace Department of Herpetology, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA, USA aut EcoHealth Springer-Verlag 3/3(2006-09-01), 141-153 1612-9202 3:3<141 2006 3 10393 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10393-006-0032-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10393-006-0032-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Aguirre A. Wildlife Trust, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Gardner Susan Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste, S.C., La Paz, BCS, Mexico aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Marsh Jesse Seafood Watch Program, Monterey Bay Aquarium, 886 Cannery Row, 93940, Monterey, CA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Delgado Stephen Department of Life Sciences Communication, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Limpus Colin Queensland Turtle Research, Capalaba, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Nichols Wallace Department of Herpetology, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- EcoHealth Springer-Verlag 3/3(2006-09-01), 141-153 1612-9202 3:3<141 2006 3 10393 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer