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04 October 2024Who does this notice affect?Approved arrangements operators, customs brokers, importers, manned depots, and freight forwarders who will be required to book and manage requests for import inspections using the Biosecurity Portal during this scheduled maintenance window.Approved…
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01 July 2024Who does this notice affect?Approved arrangements operators, customs brokers, importers, manned depots, and freight forwarders who are required to book and manage requests for import inspections using the Biosecurity Portal.InformationStart time: As of: 11:30 Monday 01 July 2024 (…
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24 February 2025Who does this notice affect?All clients required to use the department’s Biosecurity Import Conditions System (BICON) during this planned outage.InformationTo support system maintenance, BICON will be unavailable from 23:00 Saturday 01 March to 01:00 Sunday 02 March 2025 (AEDT).…
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OverviewAnimal Health Australia and the Department of Primary Industries and Regions, South Australia funded the development of an app, Sheep EAD AR. This app is available in the Apple, Google play and Microsoft App Stores.Producers and other stakeholders can use the app on mobile devices and the…
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The Gulf Standards Organisation (GSO) of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) has published a technical regulation that recognises extended shelf-life for chilled vacuum-packed red meat. This recommends that all GCC members bring their regulations for the shelf-life of chilled, vacuum-packed red meat…
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Biotechnology is a powerful enabling technology that has the potential to revolutionise many industries, including agriculture. Biotechnology offers benefits for farmers, the food manufacturing industry, consumers and the community; and the department supports the development and use of…
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The Exporter Supply Chain Assurance System (ESCAS) is a regulatory requirement. Exporters must meet requirements in ESCAS to export feeder or slaughter livestock from Australia.
For the purpose of export, we define livestock as sheep, goats, cattle, deer, buffalo, and camelids. ESCAS only applies…
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Australia’s biosecurity legislation allows us to adapt to changing biosecurity risk. From time to time, we update import requirements to strengthen control on goods where risk has increased,…
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Before any work can commence, we must first establish the need for:
a new Australian and New Zealand standard diagnostic procedure (ANZSDP), or
revision of an existing ANZSDP or Australian standard diagnostic technique (ASDT).
This is part of a process to draft and review ANZSDPs by…
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We have completed our Review of the biosecurity risks of prawns imported from all countries for human consumption. The final report included proposed import conditions. Publication of the final report represented the end of the process.
Comment was sought on the import conditions proposed in the…
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