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Alerts and Changes provide information about notices or changes to import conditions. You can keep informed with these notices by following individual import cases.
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Upcoming publication of import conditions for fresh table grapes from Japan
Effective from 27 August 2024
The department will publish import conditions for fresh table grapes from Japan.
The import conditions will apply to fresh table grapes which are defined as the entire fruit with the skin, flesh, seed and a small portion of the stem. Please note: pe...
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Fresh grapes for human consumption
Removal of SARS-CoV-2 as a Listed Human Disease
Effective from 16 August 2024
SARS-CoV-2 (the causative agent of COVID-19) has been removed as a ‘human coronavirus with pandemic potential’ under the . As a result, it is no longer considered a Listed Human Disease.
Because of this change, a number of goods derived from SARS-CoV-...
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Microorganisms and infectious agents (and derivatives)
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Human fluids and tissues
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Laboratory materials
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Genetic material (nucleic acids and their derivatives) excluding plants and plant pathogens
Import condition changes to Fresh fruit and foliage for ceremonial purposes
Effective from 14 August 2024
Willow foliage (Salix spp.)
The Department has conducted a technical assessment regarding the risk of Phytophthora ramorum - Sudden Oak Death (SOD) and its association with willow foliage (Salix spp.) grown and exported from the United States of Ameri...
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Fresh fruit and foliage for ceremonial purposes
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Fresh cut flowers and foliage
Changes to the Camelid, Cervine, Ovine and Caprine Fluids and Tissues Country Lists
Effective from 1 August 2024
The Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (the department) has removed Greece and Romania from the and . Romania has also been removed from the .
These lists are referenced both on active permits and in several BICON import pathways for g...
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Animal fluids and tissues (excluding viable reproductive material)
Update to the process for importing non-standard dehydrated and pre-sterilised microbiological media
Effective from 18 July 2024
The department has completed an import risk review of dehydrated and pre-sterilised microbiological media, which can be viewed . The review recommends new baseline risk mitigation measures to modernise and simplify Australia’s import conditions for mic...
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Culture media
Transition to referencing the Australian Centre for Disease Control on import permits
Effective from 6 June 2024
The interim Australian Centre for Disease Control (CDC) was launched within the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care on 1 January 2024. Further information on the interim Australian CDC is available on its .
Pending commencement ...
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Purified antibodies
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Microorganisms and infectious agents (and derivatives)
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Human fluids and tissues
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Laboratory materials
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Genetic material (nucleic acids and their derivatives) excluding plants and plant pathogens
Reviewed changes to permitted live freshwater ornamental fish species list
Effective from 29 May 2024
The Department of Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF) has updated the to temporarily remove 18 rainbow fish species. The reviewed list can be found on our website.
The Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW) is ...
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Live freshwater ornamental fish
Changes to the List of approved starter cultures
Effective from 16 March 2024
The Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (the department) has added 17 genera to the .
Background:
In 2020 the Lactobacillus genus was split into 25 genera, 23 of which are novel. Policy advice was provided for seven genera that were ...
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Starter cultures (and derivatives)
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Microorganisms and infectious agents (and derivatives)
Voluntary fumigation of fresh cut flowers and foliage in 2024
Effective from 7 February 2024
As per IIAN consignments of fresh cut flowers and foliage found to be infested with live insect pests have the option to be directed for onshore fumigation and release prior to pest identification by an entomologist, for the following periods in 2024:...
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Fresh cut flowers and foliage
Changes to vegetable seed for sowing permit application form, effective 5 October 2023
Effective from 28 September 2023
Who does this notice affect:
This notice is of interest to importers (and their customs brokers) of the following vegetable seeds for sowing: capsicum, carrot, parsley, parsnip, tomato, wild tomato.
What has changed:
The Department of Agriculture,...
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Capsicum spp. (requiring testing) seed for sowing
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Wild tomato seed for sowing
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Petroselinum crispum seed for sowing
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Pastinaca sativa seed for sowing
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Tomato seed for sowing
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Daucus carota seed for sowing