Editorial: Diarrhoea associated with consumption of escolar (rudderfish)

Authors

  • Craig Shadbolt Food Safety and Surveillance Section, Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing, Canberra, ACT.
  • Martyn D Kirk OzFoodNet Coordinating Epidemiologist, Food Standards Australia New Zealand, Melbourne, VIC.
  • Paul Roche Surveillance and Epidemiology Section, Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing, Canberra, ACT.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2002.26.37

Keywords:

escolar, rudderfish, foodborne disease

Abstract

This issue of Communicable Diseases Intelligence contains three reports of recent outbreaks of oily diarrhoea associated with consumption of oceanfish. In each outbreak, the oily diarrhoea was caused by indigestible wax esters contained within the fish. Common names of fish associated with these outbreaks included rudderfish, butterfish, oilfish, ruddercod and escolar.

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Environmental Health Branch, Department of Human Services, South Australia. Illness reports associated with 'rudderfish'. 1999. Available from: http://www.dh.sa.gov.au/pehs/Alerts-&-Recalls/rudderfish-17dec99.htm. Accessed 5 August 2002.

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Givney RC. Illness associated with rudderfish/escolar in South Australia. Commun Dis Intell 2002;26:440.

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Nichols P, Mooney B, Elliot N. Unusually high levels of non-saponifiable lipids in the fishes escolar and rudderfish: identification by gas and thin-layer chromatography. J Chromatography 2001;936:183-191.

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Published

01/09/02

How to Cite

Shadbolt, Craig, Martyn D Kirk, and Paul Roche. 2002. “Editorial: Diarrhoea Associated With Consumption of Escolar (rudderfish)”. Communicable Diseases Intelligence 26 (September):436-38. https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2002.26.37.

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Vol. 26 (2002)

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Editorial

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