Deadly fugu fish flub prompts Japan emergency warning A Japanese city has activated an emergency warning system to alert residents to avoid eating locally purchased blowfish, after a mix-up saw toxic parts of the delicacy go on sale. A supermarket in Gamagori in central Japan sold five packages of the fish without removing the livers, which can contain a deadly poison. Three of the potentially lethal specimens have been located, but the other two remain at large. Blowfish is one of Japan's most expensive winter delicacies. But the fish's skins, intestines, ovaries and livers contain a poison called tetrodotoxin that can be fatal. SOURCE: NEWS24 ---DECRYPTED---