[dpark]

Then why ban escolar but not, say, oysters? Escolar might give you acute gastrointestinal discomfort if you eat too much or are particularly sensitive to it. Oysters might give you gastrointestinal stress that lasts for months if you get a bad one. It happened to me. The GI specialist said it was almost certainly an oyster that set off my months of dyspepsia. I don't think that means oysters should be banned just because I had a really bad experience.

Even with a warning, the side effects of escolar are so severe that literally no one should be able to choose to eat it?

[askvictor]

You make good points, but if a warning is mandated, I don't imagine anyone actually selling it. It's not so much intestinal discomfort as unexpectedly crapping your pants due to the indigestible esters.

How do you think the restaurant/fish industry could phrase this in a way that anyone might actually buy it: 'warning: this fish may cause you to unexpectedly shit yourself'

[dpark]

I misunderstood your sarcasm. I thought you were saying you've seen the warning on menus already.

I wonder how common uncontrollable diarrhea from escolar actually is. I don't know anyone who's suffered even minor ill effects, but "I shit myself" isn't something most people would share.