Some restaurants in Fukuoka have stopped serving “gomasaba,” a local specialty of raw mackerel with sesame, green onions, and sweet soy sauce, due to a rise in food poisoning cases linked to anisakis parasites. Experts attribute the surge to warmer sea temperatures and shifting currents bringing infected mackerel closer to local waters. Anisakis-related food poisoning in the prefecture has increased from just 4 cases in 2015 to roughly ten times that level in recent years. Source: RKB
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