Measurement of paralytic shellfish toxins in molluscan extracts

Updated: 2017-11-20

The methods saxiphilin radioreceptor assay, mammalian Na channel, the commercial cell culture MIST kit, mouse lethality bioassay and HPLC analysis were compared for measuring paralytic shellfish toxins. To compare 5 methods of measuring paralytic shellfish toxins. Proportions of individual paralytic shellfish toxins (STX, dcSTX, neoSTX, GTX1, GTX2, GTX3, GTX4, C1, C2, dcGTX2, dcGTX3) to total toxin content of the samples is given where discernable by HPLC analysis.