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Crackdown on ships' bird imports
3 Feb 2004
Australian Quarantine and Customs officers will start destroying or seizing all poultry and eggs on Asian ships from tomorrow. AQIS will inspect stores on both passenger and cargo ships arriving in Australia from 10 Asian countries affected by avian influenza. Customs officers will impound materials, then destroy or seal them, to be opened again only when the vessels have left Australian waters.
The new measures relate to stores that the ships' crews and passengers would consume; they are additional to current checks of airline passengers' luggage from Asian countries, and of international mail. Australia already has safeguards on imports of processed poultry products, which must be pasteurised or made safe by other methods.
The Australian, 3/2/04.
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