This project aimed to assist the seafood industry with sound practical advice on the assessments of food safety and quality aspects of new packaged seafood products in a concise and clear format.
Seafood processing and packaging techniques such as modified atmosphere packaging and vacuum packaging...
This project assessed the utility of flow-ice in preserving the freshness of Australian Sardines from the point of harvest to processing, and wholesale and retail supply chains. Trials were carried out on the Gemma Marie (White Fisheries) based at Port Lincoln, South Australia. Experiments involved...
1. To identify key reservoir sites for L monocytogenes at processing plants and determine environmental and other factors which are likely to permit multiplication of these organisms on the fish and/or in the processing plant
2. To assess the efficiency of currently recommended hygiene and decontamination procedures
3. To determine prevalences of the parasite in fish of different ages and kept in different geographic sites
4. To correlate any observed variations in prevalence with factors such as age of fish, presence of possible intermediate hosts in the environment, etc
The main aim of the 'Aquafin CRC - FRDC Southern Bluefin Tuna Aquaculture Subprogram: Net Fouling Management to Enhance Water Quality and SBT Performance' project was to better understand the impact of net fouling in sea-cage culture, specifically
within the South Australian southern bluefin tuna...