Takeshi Yasumoto, Japan Food Research Laboratories, 6-11-10 Nagayama, Tama, Tokyo 206-0025, Japan

Abstract

ctivities carried out in our laboratories to monitor the diarrhetic shellfish toxins, pectenotoxins, and yessotoxins by LC/MS, to prepare references for the above toxins, and to develop an enzyme inhibition assay for diarrhetic shellfish toxins will be presented. Additional information is provided as to the potential use of LC/MS to neurotoxic shellfish poisoning and azaspiracid shellfish poisoning.