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142-2021: Biosecurity Treatment Industry Roundtables

30 June 2021

Who does this notice affect?

Stakeholders in the import and export biosecurity treatment industry, customs brokers, related biosecurity industry participants particularly methyl bromide and sulfuryl fluoride fumigators.

What has changed?

The Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment ran two round table sessions on 8 and 9 June 2021. The aim of these sessions was to engage industry in a collaborative information exchange across a range of biosecurity treatment related topics.

2021-06: Abalone Viral Ganglioneuritis (AVG) outbreak – notification of requirements for occupiers of export registered fish establishments

Date of issue: 25 June 2021

Date of effect: Immediate

Attention:

  • Export registered fish establishments.
  • Audit and Assurance Group.
  • Audit and Assurance Group Auditors.

Purpose

To advise occupiers of a confirmed outbreak of AVG in Victoria and the various control orders and fishing restrictions that have been put into place by State Regulatory Authorities in NSW, VIC and SA as a response to the outbreak (see further information below.