Anyone at Masa in NY,NY died from eating fugu?

Question

Anyone at Masa in NY,NY died from eating fugu?

Answer 1

No. The pufferfish that Masa uses is poisonless:

To top it all off, fugu (when in season, mind you) is served at Masa. But not just any fugu: poisonless fugu.

According to The Reach of a Chef, the poison process begins when the puffer fish eats a certain type of shellfish. If the puffer fish never consumes that shellfish the poison is never produced thus; the puffer fish is not deadly to eat. Masa uses this kind of puffer fish: pen-raised, allowed to flourish in their natural habitat but isolated from the shellfish; a revolutionary idea and a way to eat puffer fish without risking death. My survival odds had improved.

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