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Staff at the Port of Brisbane were forced to reject more than 70 truckloads of grain for export in 2016 as their levels of toxic phosphine gas exceeded the workplace safety limit – a time weighted average of 0.3 parts per million.
According to researchers from the Queensland Department of Agriculture & Fisheries, while the majority of trucks rejected had gas concentrations of between 0.5–2.5 ppm, some had very high concentrations
