Doctors warn that sea urchin eggs found in the wild may be at risk of infection and can cause serious and life-threatening symptoms. They recommend that you only eat sea urchin eggs from reliable sources or farms.
ทางเข้า ufabet, provides information about the dangers of sea urchin eggs and advice on how to safely consume sea urchin eggs, as follows:
“ Sea urchins are invertebrates from the same family as starfish that feed on coral reefs. They eat algae on coral debris. Which provides space for young corals to attach themselves and grow, helping to restore the coral reefs. However, if there are too many sea urchins. They destroy the coral debris, leaving no space for young corals to grow.
“As for sea urchin eggs or uni that we eat at Japanese restaurants. They are the testicles and ovaries of sea urchins. Most of what we eat comes from sea urchin farms. In Thailand, sea urchin farming has begun to develop as another economic animal for our country.
The dangers of natural sea urchin eggs
If you buy the kind that is farmed and eat it, that shouldn’t be a problem. But if you go and catch sea urchins in the ocean and eat them yourself, be careful of the extras that come with it, which are parasites and germs. There have been dozens of cases of people getting infected with the bacteria Vibrio parahaemolyticus after eating sea urchins. If you get infected with this bacteria and eat heavy food, it can be fatal.
Then the officials went to inspect and found contamination of the said germs in the sea urchins. Therefore, if you want to eat sea urchins, you should choose to eat them from a reliable and safe source. You should be careful when eating sea urchin eggs from vendors who catch them on the beach and sell them themselves.
Campaign to return sea urchins to nature for a better ecosystem
In addition, the Department of Coastal Resources is asking for the public’s cooperation: if you see sea urchins washed ashore on the beach, do not eat them. Instead, help bring them back into the sea, as they will help eat algae and help the coral grow.