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Biosecurity Fact Sheet: Dragon fruit from Vietnam

​​Publication details Department of Agriculture and Water Resources, September 2017 Download Document Pages File size Biosecurity Fact Sheet: Dragon fruit from Vietnam PDF   2 427 KB If you have difficulty accessing this file, visit web accessibility…
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Management of vessels during the Brown marmorated stink bug (BMSB) risk season

Latest updateThe 2025-26 BMSB season commences 1 September 2025.Vessel masters will notice a revised SPQ with additional questions designed to improve pest risk assessment. These include:Reporting insect detections from the entire voyage to Australia.Confirming whether the vessel is carrying cargo…
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Importing motor vehicles, motorcycles, tyres and machinery

Motor vehicles, motorcycles, tyres and machinery (including machinery parts) can introduce biosecurity risks into Australia. Such risks include, but are not limited to: live insects, seeds, soil, mud, clay, animal faeces, animal material and plant material such as straw, twigs, leaves, roots, bark.…
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Questions and answers

25 August 2011​​Non-regulated risk analysis Why was this non-regulated risk analysis undertaken? Australia is responding to the Republic of Korea’s (hereafter Korea) request to export table grapes to…
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Animal Welfare in Australia

​State and territory governments are responsible for animal production and welfare laws and their enforcement. The states and territories set and enforce animal welfare standards through administration of state legislation for animal welfare or the prevention of animal cruelty. For Australia’s…
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MAA 2024-29: All Markets: Avian Influenza market access issues update #12 – High Pathogenicity Avian Influneza – certification updates for Taiwan

Date of issue: 16 August 2024Date of effect: 19 August 2024Related MAAs: 2024-08, 2024-10, 2024-12, 2024-13, 2024-15, 2024-16, 2024-18, 2024-20, 2024-22, 2024-25, 2024-26AttentionEgg Export EstablishmentsDepartment of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry – Central and Regional officesPurposeThis…
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MAA 2024-23: Egg and egg products: All Markets: Avian influenza market access issues update #9 – High pathogenicity avian influenza - certification updates for multiple markets

Date of issue: 12 July 2024Date of effect: ImmediateRelated MAAs: 2024-08, 2024-10, 2024-12, 2024-13, 2024-15, 2024-16, 2024-18, 2024-20, 2024-22AttentionEgg Exporters - AustralianEgg Export establishmentsLicensed exportersDepartment of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry - Central and Regional…
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2010-10 - Commencement of IRAs for the importation of beef and beef products from the United States, Canada and Japan

8 April 2010 Biosecurity Australia Advice 2010/10 This Biosecurity Australia Advice (BAA) announces the formal commencement of concurrent import risk analyses (IRAs) for the United States, Canada and Japan to assess the animal quarantine risks from the importation of beef and beef products…
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Dr David Banks Biosecurity Lifetime Achievement Award

Dr Leslie David SimsDr Leslie David Sims is a highly experienced veterinarian with a passion for preventing infectious diseases of production animals, especially those that also affect humans. He started his career as a laboratory diagnostician in the Victorian public sector and used these…
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Australia’s native forests and wood production

Australia’s native forests and wood productionThis Insights paper describes Australia’s native forests managed for wood production, the sustainable wood harvesting that is carried out within them, and other ecosystem services that they provide. Future opportunities and challenges regarding native…
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