11 results
Blank
Blank
PROJECT NUMBER • 2008-731
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

SCRC: The Australian Seafood Diet for Intergenerational Health: Development of a healthy high Australian seafood diet that will be acceptable to women of child-bearing age.(PhD student Lily Chan)

Consumers are advised to eat more fish for a range of health benefits, including for growth and development, protection against heart disease and lowering of plasma triglycerides. However, there are some caveats in these recommendations for some sub-groups of the population, such as those women who...
ORGANISATION:
Flinders University

SCRC: PhD 6.04 Improving Safety and Marketability of Australian Oysters

Project number: 2010-723
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $0.00
Principal Investigator: Richard Bentham
Organisation: Flinders University
Project start/end date: 31 Aug 2010 - 31 Aug 2013
Contact:
FRDC

Need

Norovirus is the most common foodborne virus. Large outbreaks of norovirus illness associated with shellfish have occurred in Australia. Fourteen outbreaks of gastroenteritis were associated with oyster consumption in Australia between 2001 and 2008, norovirus was confirmed as the causative agent in most of these.

Recent findings demonstrate norovirus binds to receptors on oyster cells, and large variations in amounts of virus taken up by individuals, suggest that oysters may be genetically predisposed to retaining norovirus. There is an opportunity for developing strategies to minimise contamination of oysters with norovirus such as efforts to breed oysters, or pre-treat oysters with virus inhibitors, so they do not bind large quantities of norovirus. These strategies have not been investigated previously and this research will contribute significantly to the current body of knowledge. The success of such approaches could lead to reductions in human illness from consumption of oysters.

Oyster growing areas that have been closed after being implicated in human outbreaks of norovirus gastroenteritis are required to have three consecutive clear rounds of testing prior to being re-opened for commercial harvesting. Some oyster growing areas have large numbers of cattle and pigs residing in the catchment and the following questions have been raised:

(a) Is the oyster norovirus test able to detect bovine and porcine norovirus which may pose no human health issue?
(b) Do Australian cattle and pigs excrete human norovirus strains?

There are many different human norovirus strains which fall into two major genogroups. Current scientific information suggests that the current oyster norovirus test (specific for genogroup I and II) may cross react with some porcine norovirus strains, but the literature is scant with respect to information on the cross reactivity of bovine norovirus strains.

Blank
PROJECT NUMBER • 2007-714
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

SCRC: Review of health benefit research and development relevant to the Australian seafood industry and members of the Australian Seafood CRC

This project was designed to assist the Australian Seafood CRC identify research gaps and opportunities and ultimately provide the necessary background information and rationale for a potential supplementary bid to DIISR for funding of a new program of health related research. The Food Standards...
ORGANISATION:
Flinders University
Blank
PROJECT NUMBER • 2011-753
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

SCRC: SCRC RTG Implementation of PhD research to industry partner Simplot Australia (Student:  Sam He)

The objective of this research travel grant was to develop Australian Seafood CRC PhD student Shan He's professional knowledge of transferring laboratory-scale results to a pre-commercial food model for industry benefit, and also build his professional skills and industry experience. After one and...
ORGANISATION:
Flinders University
View Filter

Research

Species

Organisation