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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2025-11-25T11:00:00+10:30" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)</sessionName>
  <parliamentNum>55</parliamentNum>
  <sessionNum>1</sessionNum>
  <parliamentName>Parliament of South Australia</parliamentName>
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  <startPage num="10363" />
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  <dateModified time="2025-11-26T15:43:08+10:30" />
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    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
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      <name>Algal Bloom</name>
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        <inserted>
          <heading>Algal Bloom</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="4363" referenceid="93519aefc9814df9a5e20a43c35e142f" uid="c373492b43594f9fba0d5a08da4dcf34" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. T.A. FRANKS</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <question date="2025-11-25T00:30:00+10:30">
            <name>Algal Bloom</name>
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        <startTime time="2025-11-26T00:00:00+10:30" />
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            <timeStamp time="2025-11-26T00:00:00+10:30" />In reply to <by role="member" id="4363" referenceid="93519aefc9814df9a5e20a43c35e142f" uid="c373492b43594f9fba0d5a08da4dcf34">the Hon. T.A. FRANKS </by>().3 June 2025).  </inserted>
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      <talker role="member" id="5412" referenceid="f6f1a5ffd4774774bcc2b9675cc1d44d" uid="fbf479bc9bad418f85ca74228445f7e6" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. C.M. SCRIVEN</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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            <name>Minister for Primary Industries and Regional Development</name>
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            <name>Minister for Forest Industries</name>
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          <question date="2025-11-25T00:30:00+10:30">
            <name>Algal Bloom</name>
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            <by role="member" id="5412" referenceid="f6f1a5ffd4774774bcc2b9675cc1d44d" uid="fbf479bc9bad418f85ca74228445f7e6">The Hon. C.M. SCRIVEN (Minister for Primary Industries and Regional Development, Minister for Forest Industries):</by>  I am advised:</inserted>
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          <inserted>That gill and liver tissue samples from six white sharks collected within Gulf St Vincent and Investigator Strait showed low concentrations of brevetoxin groups 2 and 3. The concentrations ranged from 0.005 to 0.110 milligrams per kilogram.</inserted>
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          <inserted>That samples from oysters from closed area showed levels well above the Food Standards Code limits. </inserted>
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        <text id="20251125a8dbe27edb5e4a0290001652">
          <inserted>Results received for oysters samples taken 25 May 2025:</inserted>
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            <inserted>Port Vincent total brevetoxins 2.30 milligrams per kilogram. </inserted>
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            <inserted>Stansbury total brevetoxins 3.60 milligrams per kilogram.</inserted>
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            <inserted>Coobowie total brevetoxins 5.40 milligrams per kilogram.</inserted>
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            <inserted>American River total brevetoxins 2.50 milligrams per kilogram.</inserted>
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          <inserted>PIRSA are aware abalone producers have undertaken brevetoxin testing with the results remaining the property of the producer.</inserted>
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