Alerts & Changes
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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Changes to the 'Dairy' BICON case
Effective from 21 November 2024
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 ...
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Dairy
Containerised, mined and chemical (natural or synthetic) fertiliser for further processing pathway
Effective from 20 November 2024
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...
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Fertilisers
Compliance-Based Intervention Scheme (CBIS) for AUST R human vaccines
Effective from 18 November 2024
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...
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Human therapeutics and medicines
Improvements to CBIS for breaded, battered or crumbed prawns and highly processed uncooked prawns
Effective from 18 November 2024
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...
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Prawns
Live C. elegans standard permit pathways moving between BICON cases
Effective from 7 November 2024
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. ...
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Live animals and their reproductive material for laboratory use
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Laboratory materials
Update to add facilities participating in the Canadian Sawn Wood Certification Program (CSWCP)
Effective from 23 October 2024
The has been updated to include additional facilities on advice from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. Please review the list to identify facilities participating in the CSWCP and the associated AEI codes.
Who does this notice affect:
Importers...
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Timber and timber products
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Logs, log cabins and oversize timber
Change to import conditions for bovine embryos from the United Kingdom
Effective from 16 October 2024
The Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry has published updated import conditions for in vivo bovine embryos from the United Kingdom in response to updates to the agreed health certificate. The import permit conditions have been modelled to...
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Bovine embryos
Changes to Orchid tissue culture imported via an airport as accompanied baggage
Effective from 12 October 2024
The Department has reviewed the import conditions for import of Orchidaceae tissue culture flasks/containers as accompanied baggage through an airport. As a result of the review, the department has made the following changes:
1. Amended the labelling ...
Related Cases:
Orchids for use as nursery stock
Information notice added for cosmetics for human use
Effective from 10 October 2024
The department has added an information notice to the BICON case 'Cosmetics and soaps' for cosmetics for human use.
There have not been any changes to the import conditions.
• An information notice has been added advising that certain cosmetics are...
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Cosmetics and soaps
Addition of PCR test for Solanum tuberosum for use as nursery stock
Effective from 3 October 2024
Following a review, the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (the department) has identified Candidatus Arsenophonus phytopathogenicus as a regulated quarantine pest associated with Solanum tuberosum. This pathogen is not reported in Austr...
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Solanum tuberosum for use as nursery stock