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Health
The consequence of bad eggs
Dr David Obendorf Implementing Food Safety Standards from the Farm to the Consumer Reporting on the five incidents in 2005, investigators described...
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Environment
We reap what we sow
Dr David Obendorf Regrettably David (comment #178), it is becoming increasing apparent that the devil decline and the emergence of the infectious...
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Environment
Llewellyn doesn’t want to know…
Dr David Obendorf In my experience the resource hungry (nay, starved to emaciation & weakness) phalanxes of State Government responsible for environmental...
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Environment
Where are they from?
Dr David Obendorf As most wild devils are not exposed to plastic products from urbanised living (from household dust, carpets, computers, televisions,...
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Environment
Platypus and the Hydro
Dr David Obendorf Yes, Tony several persistent organic pollutants are present in the fat of Tasmanian platypus; these include the organochlorinne pesticides...
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Environment
Wonderland to Wasteland
David Obendorf Obtaining reliable and incontestable evidence of thyalcine presence & establishment within any Tasmanian habitat (at locations historically known to be...
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Environment
All about POPs
Dr David Obendorf The chemists also measured PBDEs in 700 samples of farmed and wild salmon from around the world (all except...
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Environment
Clean, green, pristine …
David Obendorf The detection of polybrominated biphenyl ethers (PBDEs) in the body fat of Tasmanian devils should be yet another prompt to...
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Environment
Poison Island (2)
David Obendorf Timeline of the toxicology study in Tasmanian devils A range of POPs including organo-chlorines, PCBs, furans and dioxins have already...
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Environment
Poison Island
David Obendorf The tragic irony Tasmania now faces is that we might be trying to eradicate an unwanted predator – namely the...
