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2007/719 - Protecting the safety and quality of Australian Oysters with integrated predictive tools 2008/753 - Review of the Australian Oyster Consortium on their strategic market direction _______________________________________ |
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A Critical Evaluation of Supply-Chain Temperature Profiles to Optimise Food Safety and Quality of Australian Oysters Project Number - 2007/700 Start Date - 31st August 2007 End Date - 31st August 2008 Principal Investigator - Mr Thomas Madigan Research Provider -South Australian Research and Development Institute CRC Research End User - Oyster Consortium
About the Project This project is designed to provide critical data in the development of predictive tools, to increase value chain effiiciency enabling better management of food safety risks associated with microbiological hazards in the Australian seafood cool chain. Project Objectives 1. Evaluate Australian oyster cool chain processes to underpin food safety and optimise commercial quality. 2. Identify future research, investment, education and training priorities to implement best practice time temperature regimes for the Australian oyster industry. 3. Provide input to the development of an Australian Oyster Refrigeration Index to assist industry and regulators to optimise time temperature regimes that assure food safety. ____________________________________________________ |
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Establish the Technical and Market Data to Assess the Feasibility of Live Bivalve Mollusc (Australian Oysters) Access in USA - Stage 1 Project Number - 2007/706 Start Date - 1st January 2007 End Date - 1st January 2010 Principal Investigator - Mr Matthew Muggleton Research Provider - South Australian Oyster Research Council CRC Research End User - Oyster Consortium
About the Project Australian oyster producers in South Australia, Tasmania and New South Wales have identified a potential for the sectors to achieve a premium price for Australian product if current technical barriers to trade could be removed to allow live Australian oysters in to the US market. While Australia's Australian Shellfish Quality Assurance Program (ASQAP) system is largely based on the US Food and Drug Administration Program, industry driven changes to new, more cost effective monitoring tests has meant that the current program is somewhat different to the US program. It was initially thought that the costs associated with entering the US market would make it a cost prohibitive process but more recently, the US Food and Drug Administration has made the decision to recognise the current shellfish harvest area classifications (subject to verification that the current ASQAP microbiological testing methodologies yield the same results) as National Shellfish Sanitation Program (NSSP) methodologies. Therefore, the Australian oyster industry and regulators would need to be convinced that changing methodologies would not put our shellfish sanitation program at a disadvantage. The industry now needs to consider the business case for opening, developing and maintaining a new market for Australian oysters in the USA. This project will assist the industry to investigate their needs at a commercial and technical market level. Project Objectives 1. Determine the commercial feasibility for the Australian oysters grwoers to access, develop and maintain a market in the USA. ____________________________________________________ |
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Protecting the Safety and Quality of Australian Oysters with Integrated Predictive Tools Project Number - 2007/719 Start Date - 1st January 2008 End Date - 30th January 2009 Principal Investigator - TBA Research Provider - University of Tasmania CRC Research End User - Oyster Consortium
About the Project This project will produce a software program containing a predictive refrigeration index that can be used by all stages of the oyster supply chain to control the risk of bacterial contamination, particularly Vibrio parahaemolyticus. Once approved by Australian and international bodies, the predictive index will assist in obtaining greater access to national and international markets. Project Objectives 1. To produce a validated and robust Vibrio parahaemolyticus model that is approved by Australian and international regulatory bosies to manage the live oyster cold chain, control the risk of Vibrio diseases and provide greater access to national and international markets. __________________________________________________ |
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Review for the Australian Oyster Consortium on their Strategic Market Direction Project Number - 2008/753 Start Date - 1st August 2008 End Date - 31st August 2008 Principal Investigator - Mr Ewan Colquhoun Research Provider - Ridge Partners CRC Research End User - Oyster Consortium
About the Project The Oyster Consortium could be in danger of making market investment decisions without an agreed strategy or stalled by indecision ormaking an insignificant investment to ensure a profitable marketplace on completion of the Cooperative Research Centre. Project Objectives 1. Accept a documented summary of consumer expectations from which to guide investment. 2. Form views on industry needs and strategies that enable the industry to meet those expectations. 3. Preliminary input into the Business Plan and resolution on financial contribution into relevant Seafood Cooperative Research Centre projects. ___________________________________________________ |
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