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Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 1999-332
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Development of a national biotoxin strategy

In Australia aquaculture and wild harvest of shellfish is an economically important and growing industry. The safety of these products as a food source is of utmost importance from both public health and economic points of view. One of the potential problems faced by shellfish growers is...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regions South Australia (PIRSA)
TAGS
Workforce
Nutrition
Market Opportunities
Fisheries Management
Estuarine
SPECIES
Tropical Abalone
Ballot’s Saucer Scallop
Blacklip Abalone
Roe’s Abalone
Greenlip Abalone
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2014-032
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Improved understanding of Tasmanian harmful algal blooms and biotoxin events to support seafood risk management

The 2012 Tasmanian biotoxin event represents a paradigm shift for seafood risk management in Tasmania and Australia as a whole. The causative dinoflagellates are extremely difficult to identify by routine plankton monitoring, and are toxic at very low cell concentrations (50-100 cells/L). Sampling...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
TAGS
Toxin
Rac Tas
Oceanography
Market Opportunities
Electronic Monitoring
SPECIES
Southern Rock Lobster
Greenlip Abalone
Commercial Scallop
Sydney Rock Oyster
Pacific Oyster
Environment
Industry
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PROJECT NUMBER • 2023-103
PROJECT STATUS:
CURRENT

Detecting paralytic shellfish toxins in oysters - initial assessment of AquaBC rapid test kit

This project trialled two rapid test kits for the rapid detection of paralytic shellfish toxins (PST) in oysters. The original project scope only included the AquaBC test kit, but a second test that become available towards the end of the project was also trialled to see if it could reliably detect...
ORGANISATION:
Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS) Hobart
TAGS
Food Safety
Consumer
Biotoxin
Aquaculture
SPECIES
Sydney Rock Oyster
Pacific Oyster
Blue Mussel
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2017-086
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Improved risk management of paralytic shellfish toxins in Southern Rock Lobster

To examine toxicokinetics of PST in Southern Rock Lobster, an experimental study was undertaken in a biosecure aquaculture facility in South Australia. Adult male lobsters were fed highly toxic mussels (6 mg STX.2HCl equiv. kg−1) sourced from the Tasmanian east coast for 4...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (Hobart)
TAGS
Toxin
Fisheries Management
Electronic Monitoring
Disease
Diagnostic
SPECIES
Southern Rock Lobster
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