The Fisheries Research and Development Corporation project 98/419 ‘An Investigation into the feasibility of producing a commercially acceptable prawn stock from the discarded heads of commercially processed prawns’ has successfully completed Objective 1, to develop a (prototype) prawn stock (liquid...

Prior to the commencement of this project approximately eighteen months ago there was no food safety program developed for the Australian prawn farming industry. Nor was there was a quality program. There were no training modules available for the industry in relation to food safety or...

In recent years, new genotypes within the yellow head complex of viruses have been discovered in farmed prawns both within Australia and overseas. This report describes research undertaken at the CSIRO Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness Fish Diseases Laboratory (ACDP AFDL), Geelong, Victoria...