Alerts & Changes

The department has added a new import pathway for bovine dairy from Japan to the 'Dairy' BICON case. • New import conditions have been developed for bovine dairy manufactured in and exported from Japan. • Import conditions do not require Japan to be ...

Related Cases:   Dairy

Import conditions previously restricted imports to only highly processed soybean and/or corn products not for human consumption. The BICON case included import questions for package weight and the import conditions mandated onshore inspection to confir...

Related Cases:   Highly processed soybean and/or corn products not for human consumption

The Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry has expanded its permit scope to include containers of mined and chemical (natural or synthetic) fertiliser that will undergo further processing. Therefore, a pathway has been included within the fe...

Related Cases:   Fertilisers

The department expanded the onto document-controlled pathways, commencing with a trial on herbal tea bags () and AUST R human vaccines (). From 18 November 2024, the CBIS manages the biosecurity document assessment rate of consignment lines of Aust...

Related Cases:   Human therapeutics and medicines

New CBIS direction issued when consignment lines are not selected for inspection The department has improved one of the directions issued by the for par-cooked breaded, battered and crumbed prawns (BBC prawns) and highly processed uncooked prawns int...

Related Cases:   Prawns

The department has been notified that Japan has had an outbreak of Lumpy Skin Disease (LSD). As such, the department no longer recognises Japan as free from LSD. Consequently, Japan will be removed from the and the list of . The department will ...

Related Cases:   Unretorted meat | Animal fluids and tissues (excluding viable reproductive material) | Dairy

The department currently offers two for live Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) for laboratory use, covering wild-type and genetically modified C. elegans specimens. As of 7 November 2024, these permits have now been moved to the pathway in BICON. ...

Related Cases:   Live animals and their reproductive material for laboratory use | Laboratory materials

The department is expanding the onto document-controlled pathways, commencing with a trial on herbal tea bags () and AUST R human vaccines. CBIS will manage the biosecurity document assessment rate of consignment lines of Australian registered () hum...

Related Cases:   Human therapeutics and medicines

Herbal tea bags will be managed on the CBIS under a new documentation trial The department is expanding CBIS onto document-controlled pathways, commencing with the trial on herbal tea bags. The trial will focus on the outcome of the document assessmen...

Related Cases:   Tea for human consumption

The Ministry of Primary Industries New Zealand has notified the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry on the commencement of the 2024–2025 Burnt Pine Longicorn beetle (Arhopalus ferus ) flight season. The 2024–2025 flight season of the B...

Related Cases:   Timber and timber products imported from New Zealand during Burnt Pine Longicorn (BPL) flight season | Timber and timber products | Logs, log cabins and oversize timber