{"id":173190,"date":"2025-09-24T11:57:54","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T02:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=173190&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2025-09-24T11:57:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T02:57:54","slug":"fukuoka-restaurants-halt-gomasaba-over-parasite-risk","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/fukuoka-restaurants-halt-gomasaba-over-parasite-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Fukuoka Restaurants Halt Gomasaba Over Parasite Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some restaurants in Fukuoka have stopped serving \u201cgomasaba,\u201d 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.<\/span><b> Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/newsdig.tbs.co.jp\/articles\/rkb\/2177395?display=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">RKB<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-173204\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/fnn_gomasaba-showcase_2025_cl.jpg?resize=1400%2C932&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Gomasaba\" width=\"1400\" height=\"932\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/fnn_gomasaba-showcase_2025_cl.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/fnn_gomasaba-showcase_2025_cl.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/fnn_gomasaba-showcase_2025_cl.jpg?resize=1024%2C682&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/fnn_gomasaba-showcase_2025_cl.jpg?resize=768%2C511&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/>Photograph provided by Fukuoka City. &#8211; Photo for image purpose only<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stay informed with the latest Fukuoka &amp; Kyushu news and events in English. Sign up for our <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/mailmagazine\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">free weekly newsletter <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">today and never miss a beat. Opt out anytime, your privacy is our priority. Get the inside scoop with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/mailmagazine\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Now<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Summaries based on public content, errors may occur during translation. Images credited independently. Send feedback using <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/contact\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">this <\/span><b>form<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some restaurants in Fukuoka have stopped serving \u201cgomasaba,\u201d a local specialty of raw mackerel with sesame, green onions, and sweet soy sauce&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29305,"featured_media":173204,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-173190","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-fukuoka-prefecture","news-category-general","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/173190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}