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  • n  a blowfish highly prized as a delicacy in Japan but highly dangerous because the skin and organs are poisonous

  • By contrast, fugu poison, which has almost the same effect, is always present in the sex organs and liver of Japanese puffer fish.
  • Every year a number of Japanese suffer Botanist Davis tetrodotoxin poisoning as a result of eating incorrectly prepared puffer fish, the great delicacy fugu.
  • And there was the fugu the poisonous blowfish delicacy that can cost your life if prepared incorrectly, and which can cost you $50 or more when ordered at a restaurant.

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