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...

Noroviruses are common causes of gastroenteritis in humans. As with all pathogens with an oral – faecal transmission path, food can easily become contaminated. Oysters in particular can become contaminated with norovirus due to effluent flows into estuaries. Hence, the importance of fast and...