28 April 2025

Who does this notice affect?

This notice affects importers of live plants (nursery stock), customs brokers and departmental staff.

What has changed?

Effective immediately, enhanced regulatory measures are now in place to manage the risk of Xylella fastidiosa (Xylella) in plant hosts imported from Iraq for use as nursery stock.

Options for the Development of National Standards and Guidelines for Animal Welfare

AWTG 25-02 noted an update from the secretariat that a meeting of the subgroup will be scheduled to facilitate further discussion on options.

Animal Welfare Standards and Guidelines for Livestock at Processing Facilities and Establishments

AWTG 25-02 noted an update from Queensland that jurisdictions continue to work collaboratively on the third draft of the Australian Animal Welfare Standards and Guidelines for Livestock at Processing Facilities and Establishments.

24 April 2025

Who does this notice affect?

Airlines, aircraft operators and their contracted services (third parties) performing or certifying disinsection treatments applied to aircraft cabin and hold for aircraft arriving in Australia and New Zealand.

24 April 2025

Purpose

To inform stakeholders of the change in requirements for the post-mortem inspection of beef masticatory muscles produced for export in United States of America (USA) listed establishments. 

Key Points

This advice applies to establishments listed for beef for the United States of America (USA). This advice does NOT apply to beef produced for the European Union (EU), United Kingdom (UK), or Switzerland markets.

Publication details

Department of Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry, April 2025

This document outlines the department's operational requirements to ensure the suitability of livestock and wild game processed at export-registered establishments for human consumption.

This document supplements both the Approved arrangement guidelines - for Meat and wild game and is supported by underlying Export meat operational reference documents.

Guideline

Note: This list displays current notices only.​​

This report lists food that has recently failed under the Imported Food Inspection Scheme (IFIS). 

Data for the fails in this report and previous reports are available from this link - Imported Food Inspection Scheme - monthly failing food reports - Dataset - data.gov.au

17 April 2025

Who does this notice affect?

Stakeholders in the import and shipping industries—including vessel masters, freight forwarders, offshore treatment providers, Biosecurity Industry Participants, importers, customs brokers, principal agents and master consolidators.

What has changed?

Following the identification of biosecurity concerns, we have listed COSMOS Pest Control Services (AEI: AE0010TP) as ‘under review’ on the List of unregistered providers.

17 April 2025

Who does this notice affect?

All clients required to use the department’s Biosecurity Import Conditions System (BICON) during this planned maintenance period.

All clients submitting the below declarations:

• Full Import Declaration (FID)
• Long Form Self Assessed Clearance (LFSAC)
• Short Form Self Assessed Clearance (SFSAC)
• Cargo Report Self Assessed Clearance (CRSAC)
• Cargo Report Personal Effects (PE)
• Master Consolidator Declaration Forms

All users of the Seasonal Pests (SeaPest) system.

17 April 2025

Who does this notice affect?

This notice is relevant to importers of tomato and capsicum seed for sowing from all countries, as well as their custom brokers.

What is changing?

The Department of Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry have commenced a review of Australia’s policies for testing tomato and capsicum seed, initially focusing on Tomato brown rugose fruit virus (ToBRFV) and Tomato mottle mosaic virus (ToMMV).