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News and alertsSee latest announcements that may affect how you import plant and plant products.Subscribe to receive import industry advice notices.Imported bulk grain poses a high biosecurity risk. It can provide a direct pathway for exotic plant and animal pests and diseases that can harm…
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Weekly Australian Climate,Water and Agricultural UpdateKey issuesIn the week ending 30 October 2024, low-pressure systems and troughs brought rainfall to western, northern, and eastern areas of Australia.Across cropping regions, rainfall totals of between 10 and 100 millimetres were recorded in…
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Weekly Australian Climate,Water and Agricultural UpdateKey issuesIn the week ending 15 January 2025, low-pressure systems brought rainfall to the north and east of Australia:Many northern cropping regions recorded considerable rainfall totals (between 5–100 millimetres) across large areas of…
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Weekly Australian Climate,
Water and Agricultural Update
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For the week ending 19 January 2022, troughs extending across eastern Australia resulted in scatted rainfall across southern Queensland, and eastern New South Wales and Victoria. Tropical cyclone activity and…
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From: Gary & Julie Godwill [mailto:gtgodwill@bigpond.coml
Sent: Wednesday, 29 June 2011 8:22 PM
To: BA - Plant Biosecurity Contact
Subject: NZ apple imports
To Whom It May Concern,
I am a fourth generation apple and pear grower from the Goulburn Valley. I find it unacceptable that…
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A letter of free sale is sometimes required for registering non-prescribed goods with an importing country authority prior to export.
If the importing country does not state that a letter of free sale is to be from Australia’s competent authority (that is, the department) one can instead be issued…
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This year Australia and Malaysia celebrated 20 years of excellence and working together to grow the Malaysian Fumigation Accreditation Scheme (MAFAS).The Director General, Dato’ Nor Sam Alwi and other officials from Malaysia’s Department of Agriculture met with Australia’s Agriculture…
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All food sold in Australia must be safe and meet Australia’s food standards.
Foods covered by recognised foreign government and food safety management certificates provide assurance that food safety risks are being managed.
Mandatory foreign government certificates
Some foods classified as…
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24 April 2025PurposeTo inform stakeholders of the change in requirements for the post-mortem inspection of beef masticatory muscles produced for export in United States of America (USA) listed establishments. Key PointsThis advice applies to establishments listed for beef for the United States…
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Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
The datasets below outline testing that was carried out on animal products in the 2020-21 financial year, under the National Residue Survey.
Tables in each document give details of the:
chemicals that were screened
analytical findings from the…
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