A short-term experimental biotoxin contamination facility was set up at Roseworthy, South Australia, to examine the uptake and depuration of marine biotoxins from one of the most toxic dinoflagellates known, Alexandrium catenella. Over the period of one year, SARDI’s Seafood Food Safety group...
As a result of the development of a protocol for oyster blood sample collection, preservation and transportation and subsequent catecholamine analysis during the course of this project, a test now exists which can be used to measure stress in oysters. This test will be used in the...
The South Australian Research and Development Institute (SARDI) in collaboration with the Tasmanian oyster industry and regulators, University of Tasmania and Plant and Food Research New Zealand undertook a survey of significant foodborne Vibrio species (Vibrio parahaemolyticus and Vibrio...
The South Australian Research and Development Institute (SARDI) Food Safety and Innovation (FSI) group with the support of the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC), TasWater, Central Coast Council, Port Macquarie-Hastings Council, Shoalhaven Council, New South Wales Food Authority...
The principal goal of this research was to provide a detailed characterisation of the oyster microbiome and identify links between specific features of the microbiome and oyster disease and mortality events. The conceptual framework for this work is based upon: (i) increasing...
The oyster, scallop and mussel industries currently export product to the EU. Due to the periodic occurrence of Okadaic Acid (OA) and Saxitoxin (STX) group toxins in Australian shellfish the implementation of reduced regulatory levels would reduce the amount of product eligible for EU export....