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APPENDIX VI
SELECTED REFERENCES

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Section 1

GENERAL REFERENCES

AOAC 1990, Official Methods of Analysis of the Association of Official Analytical Chemists. 15th ed. Arlington, VA. Association of Official Analytical Chemists.

Bond, R.M. 1975. Management of PSP in Canada. In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Toxic Dinoflagellate Blooms (V.R. LoCicero, ed.), Massachusetts Science and Technology Foundation, pp. 473-482.

Devlin, I.H. 1973. Oyster Depuration Plant-Ladysmith, B.C. Operation Report.

Devlin, I.H. and N. Neufield 1971. Oyster Depuration Plant-Ladysmith, B.C. Operation Report.

DFO 1984a. Fishing Vessel Certification Requirements, Handbook of Compliance, Department of Fisheries & Oceans, 200 Kent St., Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0E6.

DFO 1984b. Unloading, Handling, Holding and Transportation Requirements, Handbook of Compliance, Department of Fisheries & Oceans, 200 Kent St., Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0E6.

DFO 1986. Chemical Methods Manual, Department of Fisheries & Oceans, 200 Kent St., Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0E6.

DFO 1987. Fish Inspection Regulations, Schedules I and II, Handbook of Compliance, Department of Fisheries & Oceans, 200 Kent St., Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0E6.

DFO 1988. Standard Procedures for Bacteriological Analysis, 3rd edition, Department of Fisheries & Oceans, 200 Kent St. Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0E6.

DFO 1989. Fish Products Inspection Manual, Department of Fisheries & Oceans, 200 Kent St., Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0E6.

DFO 1990. Facilities Inspection Manual Vol. 1. Department of Fisheries & Oceans, 200 Kent St., Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0E6.

DFO Minutes, Interdepartmental Shellfish Committee, 1967 to present, available for review at Inspection Directorate, Ottawa.

Frost, W. J. 1925. Report of Committee on sanitary control of the shellfish industry in the United States. Supplement No. 53, Public Health Reports, Nov. 6, 1925, 17 pp.*

Greenberg, A.E. and D.A. Hunt 1985. Laboratory Procedures for the Examination of Seawater and Shellfish. 5th ed. Washington, D.C. The American Public Health Association, 155 pp..

Health Canada, 1989. Health Protection Branch Laboratories Method HPB-FC-11 March 1989, Liquid Chromatographic Determination of Domoic Acid in Mussels.

Houser, L.S. (ed.) 1964. Proceedings of Fifth National Shellfish Sanitation Workshop, 1964, November 17-19; Washington D.C., 239 p.*

Jensen, E.T. 1955. The 1954 national conference on shellfish sanitation, (first national workshop). Public Health Reports, 79(9).

Jensen, E.T. 1956. Proceedings - 1956 Shellfish Sanitation Workshop, (second national workshop) 1956, August 27-28; Washington, D.C. 143 p.*

Jensen, E.T. 1958. Proceedings - 1958 Shellfish Sanitation workshop, (third national workshop) 1958, August 26-27; Washington, D.C. 72 p.*

Jensen, E.T. 1961. Proceedings - 1961 Shellfish Sanitation Workshop, (fourth national workshop) 1961, November 28-30; Washington, D.C. 288 p.*

Morrison, G. (ed.) 1968. Proceedings of Sixth National Shellfish Sanitation Workshop, 1968, February 7-9; Washington D.C. 115 p.*

Morrison, G. 1977. Memorandum, manual interpretation S.S. 31, Subject: evaluation of independent laboratories. Food and Drug Administration, Bureau of Foods, Washington, D.C., 1977, May 13. Available from: FDA, Shellfish Sanitation Branch, 200 C Street, S.W., Washington, DC 20204.

Neufield, N., Tremblett, A and K. Jackson 1975. Clam Depuration Project, Ladysmith, B.C.

NSSP (see U.S. Food and Drug Administration).

Prakash, A., J. C. Medcof and A.D. Tennant 1977. Paralytic shellfish poisoning in Eastern Canada. Bulletin 177. Fisheries Research Board of Canada, Ottawa, Canada.

Quayle, D. B. 1969. Paralytic shellfish poisoning in British Columbia. Bulletin 168. Fisheries Research Board of Canada, Nanaimo, B.C., Ottawa, Canada.

Ratcliffe, S.D. and D. S. Wilt (ed.) 1971. Proceedings of Seventh National Shellfish Sanitation Workshop, 1971, October 20-22; Washington D.C. 412 p.*

U.S. Food and Drug Administration, 1990 Revision. National Shellfish Sanitation Program Manual of Operations. Part I, Sanitation of Shellfish Growing Areas. Interstate Shellfish Sanitation Conference, P.O. Box 4460, Austin Texas 78765.

U.S. Food and Drug Administration, 1990 Revision. National Shellfish Sanitation Program Manual of Operations. Part II, Sanitation of the Harvesting, Processing and Distribution of Shellfish. Interstate Shellfish Sanitation Conference, P.O. Box 4460, Austin, Texas 78765.

U.S. Food and Drug Administration, 1993 Revision. National Shellfish Sanitation Program Manual of Operations. Part I, Sanitation of Shellfish Growing Areas. Interstate Shellfish Sanitation Conference, P.O. Box 4460, Austin Texas 78765.

U.S. Food and Drug Administration, 1993 Revision. National Shellfish Sanitation Program Manual of Operations. Part II, Sanitation of the Harvesting, Processing and Distribution of Shellfish. Interstate Shellfish Sanitation Conference, P.O. Box 4460, Austin, Texas 78765.

Wilt, D.S. (ed.) 1974. Proceedings of Eighth National Shellfish Sanitation Workshop, 1974, January 16-18; New Orleans LA 158 p.*

Wilt, D.S. 1975. Proceedings of Ninth National Shellfish Sanitation Workshop, 1975, June 25-26; Charleston, SC 150 p.*

Wilt, D.S. 1977. Proceedings of Tenth National Shellfish Sanitation Workshop, 1977, June 29-30; Hunt Valley MD 236 p.*

* Available from: FDA Northeast Technical Service Unit, Bldg. S-26 North Kingstown, RI 02852.

Section 2

GROWING AREA SURVEY AND CLASSIFICATION REFERENCES

APHA 1980. Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater. 13th edition. APHA Washington, D.C. (1980).

Bordner, R. and John Winter,(eds.), 1978. Microbiological Methods for Monitoring the Environment: Water and Wastes. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency EPA-600/8-78/017.

Chandler, Linda A., 1982. Indicator organisms. Northeast Technical Services Unit, Shellfish Sanitation Branch, U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

Environment Canada, 1993. Marina Basin Closure Study. Prepared by Bion Research Inc. for the Canadian Shellfish Sanitation Program. 25p plus appendices.

Faust, M.A., 1976. Coliform Bacteria from Diffuse Sources as a Factor in Estuarine Pollution. Water Research, 10: 619-627.

Furfari, S.A., 1979a. Monitoring Programs for Shellfish Growing Areas. In: Shellfish Growing Area Survey and Evaluation Training Course, Lexington, Mass., May 17-21, 1982. U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Northeast Technical Services Unit.

Furfari, S.A., 1979b. Bacteriological Data Analysis. In: Shellfish Growing Area Survey and Evaluation Training Course, Lexington, Mass., May 17-21, 1982.

Furfari, S.A., 1979c. Training Course Manual. Non-point Pollution and Shellfish Sanitation. Department of Health, Eduction, and Welfare, Public Health Service, Food and Drug Administration Northeast Technical Services Unit, Davisville, Rhode Island.

Gameson, A.L.H. (ed.) 1975. Discharge of Sewage from Sea Outfalls. Pergamon Press.

Hoadley, A.W. and B.J. Dutka (eds.), 1977. Bacterial Indicators/Health Hazards Associated with Water, ASTM STP635. American Society for Testing and Materials.

Hunt, D.A., 1977. Indicators of Quality for Shellfish Waters, In: Bacterial Indicators/Health Hazards Associated with Water, ASTM STP635. A.W. Hoadley and B.J. Dutka, eds., pp. 337-345.

Hunt, D.A. and J. Springer, 1977. Comparison of Two Rapid Test Procedures with the Standard EC Test for the Recovery of Faecal Coliform Bacteria from Shellfish Growing Waters. J. Assoc. Off. Anal. Chem. 61(6):1317.

Kay, B.H., 1978. Evaluation of the A-1 Medium for Rapid Recovery of Faecal Coliforms from Marine Waters. Environmental Protection Service Regional Program Report 78-9, Fisheries and Environment Canada.

Menon, A.S., 1977. Evaluation of A-1 Medium for the Rapid Recovery of Faecal Coliforms from Marine Waters. Environmental Protection Service Technology Development Report EPS-4-AR-75.

Mitchell, R. (ed.) 1978. Water Pollution Microbiology. Vol. 2. John Wiley and sons, Inc.

NETSU, 1975. Training Course - Field Techniques in Tracing Sewage Effluents. Prepared by Northeast Technical Service Unit, Food and Drug Administration, Davisville, Rhode Island.

NSSP (see U.S. Food and Drug Administration).

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1990. Technical Guidance Manual for Performing Waste Load Allocations, Book III - Estuaries, Part I - Estuaries and Waste Load Allocation Models. Washington, D.C.

U.S. Food and Drug Administration, 1965. National Shellfish Sanitation Program Manual of Operations. Part 1: Sanitation of Shellfish Growing Areas. U.S. Department of Health, Eduction and Welfare.

Verber, J.L., 1983. Shellfish-Borne Disease Outbreaks. Food and Drug Administration, Northeast Technical Services Unit, Davisville, Rhode Island, USA.

Velz, C.J., 1981. Graphical Approach to Statistics. Reprinted from Water and Sewage Works.

Waller, D.H., 1977. Shellfish Area Contamination in the Maritime Provinces (Vol. 1). Report to Environmental Protection Service, Environment Canada, Atlantic Region, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.

Woodward, R.L., 1957. How Probable is the Most Probable Number. Journal AWWA 449: 1060-1068.

Section 3

DEPURATION REFERENCES

Arcisz, W., and C.B. Kelly, 1955. Self-purification of the soft clam, Mya arenaria. Public Health Report, 70 (6): 605-14.

Ayres, P.A., 1978. Shellfish purification in installations using ultraviolet light. Lab. Leaflet MAFF Direct. Fish. Res. Lowestaft, (43), 20 pp.

Cabelli, Victor, and W. Paul Heffernan, 1970. Elimination of bacteria by the soft shell clam, Mya arenaria. Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada, 27:1579-87.

Fisheries and Marine Service, and Environmental Protection Service, 1973. Regional guidelines for depuration of shellfish. Unpublished Manuscript 24 pp + VIII.

Furfari, S.A., 1976. Depuration Plant Design. U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Public Health Service, National Shellfish Sanitation Program, Washington, D.C., 119 pp.

Kelly, C.B., 1961. Disinfection of sea water by Ultraviolet Radiation. American Journal of Public Health, 51 (11): 1670-80.

Menon, A.S., B.J. Richard, and J.P. Donnely, 1983. A Sanitary and bacteriological water quality resurvey of the St. Croix and Estuary. Environmental Protection Service, Environment Canada. Manuscript Report No. AR-83-1.

NSSP (see U.S. Food and Drug Administration).

Piel, Edward, A. Russell Ceurvels, John Der Hovanesian, Jr., and John Pow, 197_. Analysis of depuration for soft-shelled clams at Newburyport, Massachusetts and a program for bacteriological standards. Ches. Sci. 15 (1): 49-52.

Richard, B.J., J.P. Donnelly and A.S. Menon, 1983. Sanitary and bacteriological resurveys, Charlotte County, New Brunswick. Shellfish areas N.B. 9, 10, 12 and 16, 1982, Environmental Protection Service, Environment Canada. Manuscript Report No., AR-82-2.

Rowell, T.W., G. Robert, K.B. Swansburg and R. Davis, 1976. Soft shell clam depuration, Digby, Nova Scotia. Fisheries and Marine Services, Technical Report No. 687 1X + 121 pp.

U.S. Dept. of Health, Education and Welfare, 1982. Shellfish Sanitation, training course manual. Public Health Service, Division of Environmental Engineering and Food Protection.

U.S. Food and Drug Administration, 1986. Sanitation of shellfish growing areas. 1986 Revision. National Shellfish Sanitation Program, Manual of Operations Part I.

U.S. Food and Drug Administration, 1987. Sanitation of the Harvesting, Processing and Distribution of Shellfish. 1987 Revision, National Shellfish Sanitation Program, Manual of Operations Part II.