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Payback fear over quarantine move
7 Jun 2004
Recent protests by pork, banana and apple producers over proposed changes to Australia's food import rules are worrying the dairy industry. Dairy farmers are concerned there may be retaliatory trade action if Australia's quarantine rules are regarded as being based on grounds other than science.
Australian Dairy Farmers said it's concerned about suggestions that Australia should adopt a zero-risk approach, which would mean "stopping all imports and travel in or out of the country". ADF's decision to issue the warning was precipitated by the pork industry's decision to launch a legal challenge to Biosecurity Australia's scientific risk assessment process.
But a spokesman for Australian Pork Ltd said APL had never proposed a zero-risk regimen - it is just opposed to a situation which virtually guarantees an exotic disease attack within 10 years.
Australian Financial Review, 7/6/04.
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