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While Fishery Department said such case of blowfish being passed off as salmon took place at Bangkok's Talad Thai in 2002.

FFC Director Saree Aongsomwang said that normally fishermen would know what type of blowfish was edible or toxic but some might become greedy and mixed both types to sell at markets.

She said fish meat and seafood selling had never been labelled to identify suppliers, thus when there was a problem, it was hard to reach the one that caused such problem. Thus they should be labelled like other goods for consumers to choose and buy and for tracing back to the problematic supplier if a problem occurred, she said urging the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to take action as soon as possible.

Meanwhile, Mae Klong Fishery Coop deputy president Chinchai Sathirayakorn said the Chulongkorn University researcher's revelation of puffer fish toxic was rather onesided, although admitted that some people died from consuming the fish. He said those died cooked and ate the puffer fish as a whole thus they intook sufficient toxic to kill and that most of the deaths were fishermen, not the cases of those eating blowfish fillets.