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Statement of advice on the risk to human health from consumption of bivalve molluscs (shellfish) harvested from UK waters associated with marine biotoxins

Unranked emerging marine biotoxins

COT/2025/02

Last updated: 10 November 2025

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20.               Of the emerging biotoxins identified, no monitoring data, human case reports, occurrence or toxicological data was available for novel AZA analogues, DA analogues and PtTX.  A read-across approach using established toxins from the respective marine biotoxin groups was investigated for ranking these groups (TOX/2025/15); however, this approach was deemed unsuitable by the Committee (see paragraphs 31 and 32).32).

21.               For detailed discussions on the information identified from the literature and evaluation of the data for the emerging marine biotoxins please see the previous discussion papers (TOX/2023/59; TOX/2024/25).