RESEARCH FINDS POISONS PRESENT IN WILD OYSTERS
A study of oysters in the Richmond River estuary in the NSW Northern Rivers has detected 21 pesticides including herbicides, fungicides and insecticides.
Each oyster had on average detectable levels of nine different pesticides, among them diuron, atrazine, hexazinone and metolachlor as well as one banned fungicide, benomyl.
The researchers from Southern Cross University are calling on regulators to step up monitoring of pesticides in seafood from estuaries to enable hotspots and poor
