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The Operational Science and Surveillance’s (OSS) Entomology team at the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF) have just experienced their busiest Brown Marmorated Stink Bug (BMSB) season to date, dealing with a record number of detections.The team has 41 dedicated diagnostic…
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OverviewA diverse range of other pest management tools are available to manage pest populations.Examples are diverse and include crop rotation, solarisation to manage soil pathogens, and vector management.Evaluating the efficacy of these measures requires demonstrating a consistent and repeatable…
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OverviewComposting: is an alternative to deep burial as a biosecure and environmentally sound method of disposal. Further evaluation of this method is required to ensure it is practical and operational in a large animal disease response.Pyrolysis: Pyrolysis has the potential to be used as another…
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Summary of enhanced import conditions for prawns and prawn products for human consumption.
Importers are responsible for ensuring that the conditions on the import permit are complied with before importing goods into Australia. Please refer to Australia’s Biosecurity Import Conditions database (…
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Date of Issue: 19 May 2017
Date of Effect: Immediate
Reference Number: MAA1706
Attention:
Industries - Industry bodies - Dairy Australia.
Export Dairy Establishments
Licensed exporters
Department of Agriculture and Water Resources - Central and Regional offices
This market access advice (MAA…
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Category: Legal requirements including market access requirements
NSFS reference: 20
Issue date: 27/02/2015
Date of effect: 13 April 2015
Review date: February 2017
Contact officers…
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We have completed the risk analysis for dragon fruit from the Philippines. We will now verify that the Philippines can meet the import conditions.
Risk analysis
When we do a risk analysis we:
review the science on pests and diseases of concern
assess…
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Publication detailsDepartment of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry May 2025To provide a work tool for conducting audits at export registered establishments with the aim of consistency across audits.Downloademsap-surveillance-questions (PDF 637 KB)emsap-surveillance-questions (DOCX 117 KB)…
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24 February 2020
The Environment and Invasives Committee met on 24 February 2020 in Adelaide, South Australia.
Significant steps were made towards finalising a revised National Environmental Biosecurity Response Agreement (NEBRA) which establishes the national arrangements for responding to…
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Facilitated by the Indigenous Rangers Biosecurity Program (IRBP), the biennial Indigenous Ranger Biosecurity Round Table is an opportunity for representatives of Indigenous ranger organisations delivering fee for service biosecurity to come together with the department to hold strategic discussions…
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