The devastating foot and mouth disease, which threatens to decimate Australia’s livestock industry, has been detected in goods coming into Australia from both Indonesia and China.
Agriculture Minister Murray Watt revealed on Wednesday that a beef product containing the foot and mouth disease virus had been detected at an Australian airport, brought by a passenger from Indonesia. “I’m advised that all products now of this kind have been seized from all linked supermarkets and a warehouse in Melbourne as well.“In addition to this, a passenger travelling from Indonesia has in recent days been intercepted with a beef product that they didn’t declare, which tested positive for Foot and Mouth Disease viral fragments.”
“These sanitation mats will be a physical reminder to passengers to do the right thing to limit any spread of FMD, and will be used in conjunction with our current measures, such as passenger declaration, 100 per cent profiling of all passengers entering from Indonesia, real-time risk assessments, questioning and shoe cleaning,” he said.
micksfoley Don't worry about it.......Greens reckon the worlds ending shortly.
micksfoley Isn’t it already in Australia. Daycares had this going around 6 months ago
micksfoley Reminds me of that video from America of all the dead cattle that 'died of heatstroke' I get the vibe this is all being done on purpose
micksfoley It's not only in Bali. It's on Java & other islands. All arriving from Indo shd have all footwear put thru acid bath. Non-citizens bringing food should be sent straight back IMO. Warnings on all departing aircraft to go to Indo
micksfoley Why are we importing meat?
micksfoley With everything that's already going on, this is very convenient, is it not?
micksfoley Lazy Labor did nothing.
micksfoley Why is Melbourne importing pork from China
micksfoley Where are the people who said scomo let the china virus in? They should be saying albo let this disease in
micksfoley Shit.
micksfoley Albo in the country atm to deal with this?
micksfoley Why would we import food products from the factory bowl that is China? It’s bad enough we get all their cheap crap, but their food - we definitely don’t need!
micksfoley How convenient. Bugs for everyone
micksfoley Going to plan?
micksfoley Being that this was detected on good from China, should we not be banning all imports - kinda like what they did to us.
micksfoley Our so-called leaders need to get onto this NOW. No plans, no inquiries, no bullshit - get something done