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Once known as a popular fish delicacy, fugu, known in Japanese language as pufferfish, could be a lethally poisonous for its tetrodotoxin -- more powerful than a cyanide. Especially its liver, which fonds to be the tastiest part, but however was banned from being served in Japanese resturants since 1984.

Its process on removing the live from the entirety has to be careful or it may be deemed to be a poisionous food wherein one who ate it may suffer a paraliyzed muscular system, losing his or her ability to breathe, and there is a 60 percent chance of leading into fatality. In fact, a butcher has to learn about this specialization for at least two years.

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