| preliminary evidence of toxicity associated with the benthic cyanobacterium phormidium in south australia. | in april 2000, the water supply for yorke peninsula in south australia was deemed non-potable when extracts from a proliferation of the benthic cyanobacterium phormidium aff. formosum in upper paskeville reservoir were found to be lethally toxic by intraperitoneal injection into mice (400 mg kg-1). routine water quality monitoring had failed to detect the development of the phormidium until complaints of musty taste and odour, attributable to the production of 2-methyl-isoborneol (mib), were rec ... | 2001 | 11769248 |