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The Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry provides national leadership in international aquatic animal health activities. These contribute to:the development of the international standards of the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH)the activities of the Network of Aquaculture…
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Criterion 3: Maintenance of ecosystem health and vitality

This criterion aims to cover the range of agents and processes that affect the health and vitality of native forests and commercial plantations, including the scale and impact of vertebrate and invertebrate pests, pathogens and weeds, environmental factors such as drought and extreme weather events…
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Australian Government response to the report of the Senate Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport Committee: Regulatory approaches to ensure the safety of pet food

Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment, June 2021 Download Australian Government response to the report of the Senate Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport Committee: Regulatory approaches to ensure the safety of pet food [PDF 285 KB] If you have difficulty accessing these…
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Horse Industry Consultative Committee - Meeting Minutes 23

Download Document Pages File size Meeting Minutes 23 PDF 6 170 KB If you have difficulty accessing this file, please visit web accessibility. Online version Wednesday 25 November 2020 3.35pm to 4.30pm Department of Agriculture, Water and the…
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Non-English speaking background communities and swill feeding project

Swill feeding is when food scraps are fed to pigs. This practice can cause and spread emergency animal diseases. Diseases like foot-and-mouth disease and African swine fever. In Australia we use laws…
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About the Menu of Measures

 OverviewThe Menu of Measures is a resource developed by CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, to support the assessment and management of phytosanitary risks – that is, risks to the health of plants. It helps users identify a range of potential risk-reducing phytosanitary measures and…
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National Transition Program Policy Framework

DownloadDocumentPagesFile sizeNational Transition Program Policy Framework 6760 KBIf you have difficulty accessing this file, please visit web accessibility.Online versionNational Biosecurity…
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Policy Determination for Fresh Unshu Mandarin Fruit from Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan

​4 August 2009 BIOSECURITY AUSTRALIA ADVICE 2009/17 This Biosecurity Australia Advice notifies stakeholders that Australia’s Director of Animal and Plant Quarantine has determined a policy for the…
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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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Biosecurity Fact Sheet: Fresh breadfruit from Fiji, Samoa and Tonga

Publication detailsDepartment of Agriculture and Water Resources, August 2017​DownloadDocumentPagesFile sizeBiosecurity Fact Sheet: Fresh breadfruit from Fiji, Samoa and Tonga PDF 3864 KBIf you have…
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