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Issue Date: 29 November 2016
Contact Officers:
Mac Tawadros
A/g Director
Food Safety, Animal Health and Welfare Unit
02 6272 4924
Category: Refining and reinforcement of existing…
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The National Environmental Biosecurity Response Agreement (NEBRA) establishes the national arrangements for responding to an incursion of exotic pests and diseases that impact on the environment and our way of life.
NEBRA version 2.0 was released in January 2022 and enables greater involvement of…
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Industry Advice Notice no. 2008/33
9 December 2008
During the Christmas and New Year period of 2008/09, AQIS offices will be either closed or manned with reduced staff and hours. Confirmed bookings…
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Scope and Purpose
Biosecurity management is a complex and often difficult task involving coordination of governments, industry and the community in protecting the health of Australia’s agriculture and environment. It is becoming even more complex through growing challenges such as climate change…
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The Department of Agriculture and Water Resources has completed its group pest risk analysis (PRA) for thrips and orthotospoviruses on fresh fruit, vegetable, cut-flower and foliage imports.
As our first group PRA, we considered the biosecurity risk posed by plant-feeding thrips insects (…
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Weekly Australian Climate,
Water and Agricultural Update
Key issues
For the week ending 30 March 2022, low-pressure troughs across northern and eastern Australia resulted in heavy rainfall in the east and parts of the far north. Ex-tropical cyclone Charlotte, and associated low-…
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Department of Agriculture and Water Resources, March 2019
This report details food that was found to fail under the Imported Food Inspection Scheme during the month. For full data on activity and compliance under the Scheme refer to the six monthly…
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Weekly Australian Climate,Water and Agricultural UpdateKey issuesIn the week ending 12 June 2024, rainfall was isolated to the southern parts of the country.Across cropping regions, rainfall totals were high in the south-west and south-east, and low in the remaining regions. In Western Australia,…
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African swine fever (ASF) is a contagious viral disease of domestic and wild pigs. Since 2007, the disease has spread throughout the world. Affected countries in our region include Indonesia, Timor-Leste and Papua New Guinea. There is no registered vaccine for ASF and the disease kills about 80% of…
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Wood Rules changesChanges have been made to the Export Control (Wood and Woodchips Rules) 2021 and exporters will need to consider the new requirements. For more information, please read the Fit and Proper Persons requirements and wood export licence requirements below. An information sheet is also…
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