Source: Ministry for Primary Industries
New Zealand Food Safety is warning consumers to thoroughly cook mussels before eating following 2 people reportedly becoming sick from
Vibrio parahaemolyticus in the Nelson-Tasman region.
Paul Dansted, director of food regulation at New Zealand Food Safety said
, “Vibrio parahaemolyticus is bacteria in mussels that may cause food poisoning if they’re undercooked or eaten raw. People with low immunity, pregnant, or elderly should avoid eating raw or undercooked shellfish as the illness can be more severe.
“While the cause has not been established both people who became ill have reported eating mussels and as a precaution we are reminding consumers to cook mussels thoroughly before consumption.”
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A Covid-19 wastewater testing pilot s being rolled out around the country as a safety net for catching the virus in the community. How is wastewater sampled? Every day, about 400 million litres of wastewater are collected and treated in Auckland, across 7999 kilometres of wastewater pipes, 518 wastewater stations, 18 treatment plants and 167,264 maintenance holes. Wastewater testing is not new – ESR routinely tests wastewater for viruses and illicit drugs, such as MDMA and cocaine. There are two ways to take wastewater samples, says Dr Joanne Hewitt, head of ESR s environmental virology laboratory: automatic composite samples and grab samples. Automatic composite sampling – where a pump automatically collects a small volume of wastewater every 15 minutes over 24 hours – is the preferred method.
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Frederic Lens: building bridges in biodiversity research
Four green research institutes in Leiden are joining forces to integrate evolution and biodiversity research, at local and at the national level. Pivot in this collaboration is Frederic Lens. Frederic holding a so-called giant woody walking stick cabbage native to the Canary Islands, one of the most spectacular cases of convergent evolution towards woodiness on islands.
‘Fantastic research is being done at the Institute of Biology Leiden, the Institute of Environmental Sciences, the Naturalis Biodiversity Center and the Hortus botanicus Leiden. But there is certainly still a lot to be done through new multidisciplinary projects between the institutes’, says Frederic Lens. ‘That is what I want to commit to.’