- Marine life is toxic to humans through Envenomation by
- q Venomous animals
- Produce venom in their glands and inject it into another organisms by specialized organelles .
- Their toxins are heat labile and large molecular wt. proteins.
- q Poisonous animals
- Have toxins that should be ingested
- Toxins are heat and gastric acid stable - law molecular wt. proteins
- Marine life is divided into
- Toxin ingestion
- Ciguatera
- Scombroid
- Paralytic shellfish
- Botulinum
- toxin
- Puffer fish