One in four pork products seized in Commonwealth biosecurity blitz contain fragments of African Swine Fever

Gregor Heard
April 9 2021 - 3:00pm
FRONT LINE: Australian biosecurity staff are working hard to keep out deadly diseases such as African Swine Fever and Foot and Mouth Disease.
FRONT LINE: Australian biosecurity staff are working hard to keep out deadly diseases such as African Swine Fever and Foot and Mouth Disease.

AUSTRALIA'S strict quarantine and biosecurity systems have again proved their worth, with intercepted cargo detecting positive traces of deadly livestock diseases such as African Swine Fever (ASF) and foot and mouth disease (FMD) while plants known to be hosts of the horticultural disease xylella were also seized.

Gregor Heard

Gregor Heard

National Grains Industry Reporter

Gregor Heard is ACM's national grains industry reporter, based in Horsham, Victoria. He has a wealth of knowledge surrounding the cropping sector through his 15 years in the role. Prior to that he was with the Fairfax network as a reporter with Stock & Land. Some of the major issues he has reported on during his time with the company include the deregulation of the export wheat market, the introduction of genetically modified crops and the fight to protect growers better from grain trader insolvencies. Still involved with the family farm he is passionate about rural Australia and its people and hopes to use his role to act as an advocate for those involved in the grain sector.

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