Deadly fugu fish flub prompts emergency warning in Aichi
The Aichi Prefecture city of Gamagori has activated an emergency warning system to alert residents to avoid eating locally purchased fugu (puffer fish) after a mix-up saw toxic parts of the delicacy go on sale.
A supermarket in the city 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, local official Koji Takayanagi said.
"We are calling for residents to avoid eating fugu, using Gamagori city's emergency wireless system," which broadcasts over loudspeakers located around the city, he said.
Also at Asahi Shimbun, NPR, and Time.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 17 2018, @09:40PM
> ...and at 5pm (or 6pm in some towns) every day, they play a 30 second jingle over the same loudspeakers, as an indications to children that the day is over and it is time to go back home to Mom and Dad... :-)
I live in Tokyo, and good lord those daily jingles (and their accompanying spoken announcement) are irritating. Ten years here, still can't tune 'em out.