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Tetrodotoxin (TTX) is a powerful neurotoxin, which is tolerance to heat, salt and cooking. Minimum lethal dose for human is about 0.5mg/60 kg of body weight, the toxicity is 1000 times great than the sodium cyanide. Every year many people are ill due to improper eating or eating puffer fish. Therefore, it is significant to accurate detection of tetrodotoxin in puffer fish in order to prevention and control of tetrodotoxin poisoning. The detection method is sensitive, fast, simple and specific, only need a small amount of fish sampling.
