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1 May 2025 Who does this notice affect? Stakeholders in the import and shipping industries—including Master Consolidators, vessel masters, freight forwarders, treatment providers, Biosecurity Industry Participants, importers, customs brokers and principal agents— associated with…
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11 April 2025Who does this notice affect?This notice affects importers of live plants (nursery stock), customs brokers and departmental staff.What has changed?The department has identified a scientific publication by Ahmad et al. (2024) reporting that the plant pathogenic bacteria, Xylella…
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13 March 2025Who does this notice affect?Approved arrangements operators, customs brokers, importers, manned depots, and freight forwarders who are required to book and manage requests for inspections through the Biosecurity Portal using the ‘Sign in with your Digital ID’ (myID) pathway.Approved…
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Japanese sawyer beetle, also known as Japanese pine sawyer, is one of a number of pine-infesting
Monochamus longhorn beetles that attack stressed or recently killed trees. It is known to attack…
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Previous industry advice notices on sourcing/harvesting restrictions for abalone from Tasmania
Update: 19 September 2012
Date of effect: midnight…
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You may be familiar with the brown marmorated stink bug (BMSB), but how much do you know about its dotted relation, the yellow spotted stink bug (Erthesina fullo)?Following a spike in border detections during the 2023–24 season, the yellow spotted stink bug (YSSB) was added to Australia’s National…
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1 October 2025Who does this notice affect?This notification is to advise the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (department) has published the initial list of department authorised seed pathogen testing laboratories for Tomato brown rugose fruit virus (ToBRFV) and Tomato mottle…
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15 July 2025Who does this notice affect?All persons who currently bring in or import live animals or animal products e.g. meat, into Christmas Island or the Cocos (Keeling) Islands.What is happening?To effectively safeguard the biosecurity of the islands, we are considering amending existing…
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Date of effect: 03/03/2023
Attention
Importers of enoki mushrooms and brokers acting on their behalf.
Purpose
The purpose of this notice is to raise industry awareness of the risk of Listeria monocytogenes (L. monocytogenes) contamination in enoki (enokitake) mushrooms being imported into…
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09 September 2022
Purpose
This Industry Advice Notice (IAN) is to advise of changes being made to departmental audit requirements to allow for the recognition of food safety certification schemes.
Summary of changes and key points
From 1 October 2022, horticulture accredited property…
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