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15 April 2019 Who does this notice affect? Customs brokers and importers who import plant or plant based products, and animal and animal based products from Indonesia requiring government certification.…
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13 February 2023
Who does this notice affect?
Import-related biosecurity treatment stakeholders, including all importers, brokerages, onshore approved arrangement holders, overseas government and treatment industry entities, relevant domestic state and territory government agencies, and other…
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Author: Rhys Downham
In 2022, data describing crop loss/waste on Australian horticulture farms were collected through the ABARES Horticulture Survey. Crop loss/waste refers to primary production outputs that were intended for human use but ended up either not being harvested, disposed of, or were…
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The specifications for Sea Freight Container Inspection Stands (the specifications) outlines the design and maintenance requirements of support structures (stands) for sea freight containers, provided by other premises such as Approved Arrangement sites. It is applicable to stands used by…
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This webpage contains information reproduced from the Australian Standard AS 1604 series, produced with permission from SAI Global under licence agreement 0907-c133. Public users may view this document and may make one hard copy for personal use, but may not reproduce it for other parties in…
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The recognised offshore cleaning and pre-inspection providers (ROCIP) scheme ensures that used passenger vehicles and motorcycles exported from a recognised facility and load ports arrive in Australia free from biosecurity risk material.Recognised providers clean used passenger vehicles or…
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Biosecurity is the management of the risk of pests and diseases entering, emerging, establishing or spreading in Australia and causing harm to animals, plants or human…
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A key symptom of tobamoviruses is mottling of leaves and fruit, here in cucumber.Gerald Holmes, California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo, Bugwood.org
Tobamoviruses (exotic strains)Exotic to AustraliaExotic to Australia: One key virus, cucumber green mottle mosaic…
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Symptoms are malformations in plants, in this case an onion flower,with aster yellows (left) and normal flower yet to open (right).Credit: Lindsey du Toit, Washington State University,Bugwood.org
Phytoplasmas 16Srl group (aster yellows group)Exotic…
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Leaf blight and shoot dieback on rhododendron caused by sudden oak death.Credit: Sabine Werres BBA, Braunschweig, Germany, PaDIL
Sudden oak death (airborne Phytophthora spp.)Exotic to AustraliaFeatures: A disease caused by airborne species of the fungus-like organism Phytophthora that…
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