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Food safety regulation and monitoring of the shellfish harvesting industry.
The Classification of bivalve molluscs production areas as designated in accordance with the controls laid down in Annex II of Regulation 854/2006.
Information relating to biotoxin testing within Scottish waters up to 30 June 2009.
Information relating to biotoxin testing within Northern Ireland waters.
For weekly shellfish monitoring results, and information about Diarrhetic Shellfish Poisoning in Wales.
The Food Standards Agency Scotland held a series of open meetings at the end of 2005 to discuss issues surrounding the introduction of the new EU hygiene regulations from 1 January 2006, and how they affect the scallop industry.
A summary of a report prepared for the EU ASP Working Group by the UK National Reference Laboratory for Marine Biotoxins (January 2001).
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) is responsible for decisions relating to closures of scallop grounds when shellfish toxin levels exceed internationally recognised limits.
Minutes of Burry Inlet Shellfish Stakeholder Meeting, 19 September 2002, Dylan Thomas Conference Centre, Swansea.
Report on the use of the Jellett rapid testing (JRT) kit for PSP toxins detection in the UK statutory monitoring programme for marine biotoxins.
The expert group was convened to review and make recommendations on the suitability of available and potential methodologies for use in the UK's statutory monitoring programme for lipophilic marine biotoxins.
Refinement and in-house validation of the Association of Official Analytical Chemists (AOAC) High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) method (2005.06): the determination of paralytic shellfish poisoning toxins in mussels by liquid chromatography and fluorescence detection.
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