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What is foot-and-mouth disease?
Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is a serious and highly contagious viral animal disease that affects primarily cloven-hoofed animals including cattle, buffalo, sheep, goats, camels, lamas, alpacas, deer and pigs.
FMD virus is carried by…
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Huanglongbing causes uneven mottling across leaves leading to the eventual death of the citrus plant.M.E. Rogers, UFL, idtools.org.
Huanglongbing and vectorsExotic to AustraliaFeatures: A bacterial disease that causes yellowing, blotchy mottling, and unseasonal leaf flushing,…
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Products requiring an import permit are subject to charges as outlined on the department's website.Lodgement of an import permit applicationYou can lodge an electronic import permit application through the Biosecurity Import Conditions (BICON) system. An application charge…
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Date of effect: 31 March 2022
Supersedes: IFN 01-22 – Labelling requirements for imported kava
Attention
Importers and brokers acting on behalf of importers.
Purpose
To provide importers and brokers with further information about the conditions for import, labelling requirements for kava and…
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Authors: Mihir Gupta and Neal Hughes
Research by the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences
Research report
July 2018
Summary
This study
Since the peak of the Millennium drought in 2008, the southern Murray-Darling Basin (sMDB) has seen large increases…
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15 February 2008
Clients are advised that the home page of the PHYTO database on the AQIS website has been re-designed and updated in keeping with the Department’s requirements for web pages.…
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5 June 2023
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Animal Biosecurity Advice 2023-A06: Final report for the prawn review (PDF 242 1KB)
Animal Biosecurity Advice 2023-A06: Final report for the prawn review (DOCX 233 KB)
Model health certificate for prawns and prawn meat for human consumption (PDF 219 1KB)
If you have…
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17 June 2020
Purpose
This Industry Advice Notice (IAN) is to notify Authorised Officers that Learnhub is being updated.
Summary of changes and key points
The Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment’s system for training and professional development—Learnhub—is being updated to…
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