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Proceedings of The 9th International Conference on Molluscan Shellfish Safety - Sydney, March 2013

Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Molluscan Shellfish Safety, which took place in Sydney, Australia, 17-22 March 2013, are now available for download.

October 1, 2014

Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Molluscan Shellfish Safety, Sydney, 17-22 March 2013. Online accepted and edited papers. \"McLeod et al. (eds). 2014.

Section I – Management and Regulation

Global bivalve production, marketing and safety issues - Iddya Karunasagar

Salmonella spp. and fecal pollution indicators bacteria in zones of bivalve mollusks along the Mediterranean Coast of Egypt - Moustafa El-Shenawy, Mohammed El-Shenawy, Aida Farag, Mohammed Tawfeek, Mahmoud Abdel-Aziz, Samir Nasr, Hoda Baghdadi, Ola Saleh, J.M. Soriano and J. Mañes

Molluscan shellfish safety issues in the Pacific islands: case studies from Fiji and New Caledonia - Timothy Pickering, Ruth Garcia-Gomez and Milika Sobey

Sanitary wastewater system assessments in Canadian bivalve molluscan shellfish harvest areas - C. Roberts, P. Klaamas, C. Leblanc and J. Stobo

Microbiological risk assessment (MRA) – useful or just feel-good? - John Sumner, Cath McLeod and Tom Ross

Dye tracing techniques used in NSW shellfish growing areas to assess pollution sources - Phil Baker

The use of fluorescent whitening compounds as signals of human sourced contamination - Phillip Geary, Craig Evans, Jasmin Kable and Motswadi Maswabi

Integrated water quality forecasting system for shellfish harvesting areas - Nathan Crowell, Timothy Webster, Sean Butler, William Livingstone and Greg Rose

Adding value throughout the supply chain - Douglas McLeod

Section II – Viruses and Microbial Contaminants

Epizoic barnacles act as a reservoir for pathogenic bacteria on commercial shellfish beds: Implications for the shellfish industry - Katie Clements, Luis Giménez, Davey L. Jones, James Wilson and Shelagh K. Malham

Evaluation and application of viral source tracking in New Zealand - Gail E Greening and Joanne Hewitt

Improving the management of the risk of human enteric viruses in shellfish at harvest - Brenda Hay, Dorothy-Jean McCoubrey and Anthony Zammit

Evaluation of the sanitary status of the dutch shellfish production waters over a 7 year period - I.E. Pol-Hofstad, S.A. Rutjes, A. Gerssen, M. Poelman and A.D. van der Linden

Detection and genotyping of norovirus from clinical and shellfish samples: epidemiological implications - Carmen F. Manso, Alba Monteagudo, Jesús L. Romalde

Quality programmes as a commercial opportunity- Helen Smale

Application of risk analysis for ensuring food safety after the Fukushima nuclear accident: Focused on molluscan shellfish safety - Hajime Toyofuku

Incidence of Vibrio parahaemolyticus in oysters along Northern Manila Bay, Philippines - Reivin T. Vinarao, Jessica L. Jones, Rosario J. Ragaza1, Catharina H.M. Lüdeke, William Burkhardt, Junwell S. Cabigao and Rosa A. Bassig

Evaluation of spatial contamination patterns for norovirus and faecal indicator bacteria near to a coastal sewage discharge using Mytilus edulis as biosentinels - James B. Winterbourn, Katie Clements, James Lowther, Shelagh K. Malham, James E. McDonald and Davey L. Jones

Section III – Algae and Biotoxins

Harmful algal blooms in the Australian region: changes between the 1980s and 2010s - Gustaaf M. Hallegraeff

Identification and seasonal occurrence of potentially toxic Pseudo-nitzschia diatoms in oyster growing estuaries of New South Wales, Australia - Penelope Ajani, Shauna Murray,, Gustaaf Hallegraeff, Steve Brett, Grant Webster and Leanne Armand

First reported closure of a classified mussel production area in Northern Ireland due to Domoic Acid - H.C. Higgins, H. McEneny, April McKinney and Richard Gowen

Alexandrium species in New South Wales (NSW) coastal waters: historical distributions and identification of high-risk zones - Hazel Farrell, Penelope Ajani, Steve Brett, Anthony Zammit and Shauna Murray

Comparison of phycotoxin composition and distribution in toxigenic plankton from the north and south Atlantic - Bernd Krock, Urban Tillmann, Allan D. Cembella, Gustavo A. Lovrich and C. Marcela Bore

Risk assessment from paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP) due to bivalve consumption in Nha Trang city, Vietnam - Nguyen Thuan Anh

First report on the detection of yessotoxin from Gonyaulax spinifera in the Benguela current upwelling system - Chibo Chikwililwa, Christine Neumann, Detlef E. Schulz-Bull, Joanna J. Waniek, Norbert Wasmund and Bronwen Currie

Cyanobacterial toxin accumulation in shellfish, finfish and crustaceans: guidelines for consumer safety - Ian R. Falconer

A new high resolution LC-MS method for identification, quantification and monitoring of palytoxin-like compounds in molluscs - Patrizia Ciminiello, Carmela Dell’Aversano, Emma Dello Iacovo, Ernesto Fattorusso, Martino Forino and Luciana Tartaglione

The patterns of hsp27 phosphorylation in cells exposed to mixtures of okadaic acid and palytoxin reveal synergistic effects - Gian Paolo Rossini, Gian Luca Sala and Mirella Bellocci

Risk and Mitigation of Food Safety Risks Associated with Abalone and Crustaceans - C. J. Foord