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Live animals onboard vessels may introduce serious diseases to Australia such as African swine fever, screw worm fly, rabies, Newcastle disease, and foot and mouth disease, and therefore pose a risk to the health of Australian animals, people and environment. Animals include cats, dogs, fish, birds…
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Grants to realise big ideas for agriculture from young rural innovatorsCongratulations to Fraser Border from the University of Southern Queensland who was awarded the ultimate honour of the Minister for Agriculture, Drought and Emergency Management’s Award for his project -Implementing…
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Import conditions for fresh apples from China are now on the Biosecurity Import Conditions system (BICON), making the import of apples from China to Australia possible. A decision to import apples…
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Australian dairy establishments exporting to Chile will no longer be required to undergo periodic in-country audits by Chilean officials. The Chilean Agriculture and Livestock Service (SAG) agreed to exempt Australia from this requirement because of Australia’s high-quality dairy regulations.
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A list of horticulture export registered establishments approved to undertake treatments for protocol markets is provided below. Not all treatment facilities are listed, only those that have given permission to be published.The registered establishments are grouped by the types of approved…
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Dr John C Radcliffe AM
Emeritus Professor Malcolm Nairn AM
Dr Mark Lonsdale
Dr TJ Higgins
Dr Mark Crane
APRIL 2009
Introduction
In 2004 the Eminent Scientists Group (ESG) was established to…
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Concern about exotic and emerging disease threats has prompted interest by animal health agencies involved in preparedness and planning to use decision support tools such as animal disease modelling. Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) continues to represent the most serious threat to Australian…
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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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Exercise Waterhole was a series of workshops and exercises held in 2023. It tested and evaluated how well-prepared Australia’s animal health laboratory network was to respond to a large-scale emergency animal disease (EAD) outbreak.The simulated scenario…
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