'Blowfish Poison Behind Two Accidental Deaths on Expressway' By Kim Rahn Staff Reporter Police tentatively concluded the two middle-aged men found dead in a car on the hard shoulder of an expressway in April died from ``accidentally'' ingesting blowfish poison. However, why they took the deadly poison still remains unsolved. A police officer of Gwangju Police Office in Gyeonggi Province said Sunday that the National Institute of Scientific Investigation informed police that tetrodotoxin was found in their bodies. The institute told the police that the blowfish poison was found in both the victims' bodies, 50-year-old doctor Kim and 48-year-old businessman Park. The poison was also in the syringe and red ginseng drink bottles found at the scene. Kim bought the poison three days before the death. Considering the circumstances, police tentatively concluded that they took the poison accidentally. ``It is likely that they mistook the blowfish poison for stimulants or ene...

Here is some research that I've found on Pufferfish aka Blowfish aka Swellfish aka Tetraodontidae, class Osteichthyes, order Tetraodontiformes. Here's a great site that I found that writes about it as a law case. Here's an intro. Is the evil blowfish - also known as puffer, globefish, or swellfish - in danger of extinction? In Japan, eating the honorable fugu (blowfish) is the ideal of gourmet dining-and the cooking version of Russian roulette. According to Japan Economic newswire, a Japanese wholesaler exported the first 90 kg of vacuum-packed fugu to Hong Kong in October 1995. Hong Kong is the second market to import fugu from Japan. New York, which started importing the fish in 1989, currently sells about 1 tons of fugu every year, according to the wholesaler. Fugu's trade volume is rising because of people's curiosity in eating such fish. Click here for the rest Here is what Zenkimchi wrote on the delicacy: Jetsetters regularly talk about the exo...