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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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Addition of Dieffenbachia x memoria-corsii to the ‘Medium risk plants for use as nursery stock’ case

Effective from 31 May 2024
The Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry has completed a Weed Risk Assessment for the hybrid species Dieffenbachia x memoria-corsii and has determined that this species is permitted on the basis that it is already present in Australia and...
Related Cases:   Medium risk plants for use as nursery stock

Changes to the import conditions on the standard permit for dairy products

Effective from 30 May 2024
The Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry has made a change to the standard permit for bovine dairy products from approved countries. • The health certificate conditions for the country of manufacture have been aligned with the non-standar...
Related Cases:   Dairy

Updates to the BICON pathway for live mice and their reproductive material for laboratory use

Effective from 29 May 2024
The department has made minor changes to the BICON permit cases for live rats and mice and their reproductive material for laboratory use. Changes have been made to clarify the definition of "bred". The conditions in the following permits have been up...
Related Cases:   Live animals and their reproductive material for laboratory use

Irradiation facility has been approved to treat fresh longan from Viet Nam

Effective from 29 May 2024
A third irradiation facility – Toan Phat Irradiation – has been approved to treat fresh longan from Viet Nam. The new irradiation facility has been added to the . Who does this notice affect: Importers of fresh horticulture produce, brokers and Pat...
Related Cases:   Fresh longan for human consumption

Irradiation facility has been approved to treat fresh mango from Viet Nam

Effective from 29 May 2024
A third irradiation facility – Toan Phat Irradiation – has been approved to treat fresh mango from Viet Nam. The new irradiation facility has been added to the . Who does this notice affect: Importers of fresh horticulture produce, brokers and Path...
Related Cases:   Fresh mango for human consumption

Development of conditions for bovine dairy products manufactured in and exported from Singapore

Effective from 24 May 2024
The Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (department) has developed import permit conditions for dairy manufactured in and exported from Singapore. The commodity case 'Dairy' has been updated to reflect the newly developed Singapore dairy ...
Related Cases:   Dairy

Addition of Handelia trichophylla to the ‘Plant species that are weeds’ case

Effective from 16 May 2024
The Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry has completed a Weed Risk Assessment for the species Handelia trichophylla. The assessment has determined that this species pose an unacceptable weed risk to Australia and are therefore not permitte...
Related Cases:   Plant species that are weeds

Addition of species to the ‘Plant species that are weeds’ case

Effective from 15 May 2024
The Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry has completed a Weed Risk Assessment for the species Brassica deflexa and Erucastrum deflexum. The assessment has determined that these species pose an unacceptable weed risk to Australia and are th...
Related Cases:   Plant species that are weeds

Addition of species to the 'Xylella fastidiosa hosts for use as nursery stock' BICON case

Effective from 19 April 2024
The Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (the department) has completed a Weed Risk Assessment for the species Rabdosia effusa and its accepted name Isodon effusus. The assessment has determined these species are permitted as they pose a l...
Related Cases:   Xylella fastidiosa hosts for use as nursery stock

Restructure of import conditions for fresh decrowned pineapples

Effective from 18 April 2024
Import conditions for fresh decrowned pineapples from Philippines, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Taiwan have been restructured to align with current conventions. A common table outlining the biosecurity pests of concern and the required off...
Related Cases:   Fresh pineapple for human consumption