#Sushio fish attack movie#

You could get exposed to radioactive iodine: Well, probably not anymore, but there was a window after Japan's nuclear power plant disaster last year when some experts warned against keeping up a sushi habit. Possibly mercury poisoning symptoms include: temporary loss of peripheral vision, nerve damage, problems with motor skills, rashes and desquamation-a fancy way of saying 'skin shedding'.

#Sushio fish attack movie#

The alternative is a host of horror movie symptoms.

The off-the-charts numbers, well above the F.D.A's safety standard, led one physician involved in the study to recommend eating raw fish no more than once every three weeks.

A 2008 New York Times investigation uncovered shockingly high levels of mercury in raw fish at some of the world's finest sushi restaurants. You could partially lose your eye-sight and your skin: Remember when Jeremy Piven got mercury poisoning from too many Nobu binges and everyone balked? Maybe we shouldn't have. On a scale of zero traumatizing, surgery ranks as slightly lower than the cough. If you're not lucky enough to cough or 'water-slide' the worm out, you'll have to have him surgically removed. That's when you come face to face with a new friend. After the little guy destroys your next 24 to 72 hours by lodging in your intestinal walls he's ready to come out in either direction. The roundworm Anisakis simplex, is one of the bigger threats (pre-salmonella outbreak) of eating raw fish. But the interaction with a living creature who just emerged from your body doesn't get nearly the airtime it deserves. You could cough up a worm: When people warn about food poisoning from sushi they usually talk about the nausea, the vomiting and the several hours spent screaming at a toilet. It's highly unlikely you'll ever suffer from a sushi-related illness, but if you do you won't forget it. What sets sushi apart is the variety of ways its been known to attack. Cantaloupe, spinach and cooked ground meat have all been on FDA's most wanted list. each year, raw fish is hardly the lone offender. Of the 48 million cases of food poisoning reported in the U.S. In fact, the majority of sushi eaters haven't shown any symptoms of the bacteria. Since particular stock of tuna scrape is frozen, sushi restaurants that serve only fresh fish are unlikely to be affected. Since the outbreak, around 60,000 pounds of frozen yellowfin tuna, distributed at supermarkets at restaurants nationwide, have been recalled. Tuna scrape, the flesh-colored spicy tuna believed to be behind the outbreak, is actually a ground-up bone-scraped 'back-meat.' Not only is the ground tuna chuck low-budget, it's also a harbor for disease, according to an NPR report pegging tuna scrape as 'the new pink slime.' This is news to me, but at least sushi it isn't low-grade artificial animal shavings, right? Wrong again. First there's the fact that a spicy tuna roll, one of the more affordable and snack-able sushi menu items, averages more calories than a Big Mac, so says the Daily Plate. Put to the Morgan Spurlock 30-day test, raw fish, seaweed and rice might be just as bad as a pink slime burger. And despite all the bad press I still subscribe to the belief that my maki combo lunch special is healthier than a Big Mac.īut after a little research, I take it all back.

I eat sushi in Piven-like quantities, brushing aside the regular threats like some unnecessary green plastic wasabi divider. Still, my passion for taking risks via lunch is undeterred. What you should know about the Salmonella sushi outbreak Over 100 people in 20 states have reported symptoms (diarrhea, abdominal cramps and fever), after eating spicy tuna rolls and sashimi. What's the worst that could happen? Let's start with salmonella poisoning.