A prawn cooking meter and self-centring thermocouple clip has been successfully developed for monitoring the cooking of prawns. This cooking meter provides a much needed control tool for ensuring reliable and consistent quality required of modern quality assurance programs.
The design of the prawn...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Agriculture and Fisheries EcoScience Precinct
In order to support national uniform food safety legislation and quality assurance initiatives, a collection of information has been established at the Centre for Food Technology in Brisbane. Sources include textbooks acquired using the DPI purchasing system and catalogued within the...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Agriculture and Fisheries EcoScience Precinct
The Quantitative Training Unit for Fisheries (QTUF) operated at The University of Sydney from 1995 to 2001. There were two distinct phases to the project: Phase I (Project 93/117, from 1995 to 1997) and Phase II (Project 98/348, 1998 to 2001). The QTUF project was designed to address the need for...
This study was initiated in response to industry requests for information on the retail sales levels and consumption of fish and seafood in Sydney (the major market for Australia's fishing and aquaculture produce) because of widespread concerns about declining sales levels.
The study was designed...
The FRDC sponsored 9th International Conference on Harmful Algal Blooms held in Hobart, Tasmania, from 7-11 February 2000, was a resounding success. It was the largest conference on this topic (526 participants from 47 countries) ever held anywhere in the world. A total of 130 talks and 308 poster...
Aquaculture in Australia is a rapidly growing industry. More than 60 aquatic species including crustaceans, molluscs, finfish, crocodiles and microalgae are presently cultured in Australia, although less than ten species support around 80% of the total value of the industry. In 1995, a...