Just watching Greg Wallace on tv in York chocolate factory.Amazed the beans come into the factory from the Ivory Coast.But they have to clean them,chap has just said they have road grit,snakes,coins,shoes etc in with them.Send one bit of crap in with your corn and big trouble for us.
Chocolate beans
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borderterribles
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Snakes!!!!! Feck that for a game
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err, what sort of quarantine restrictions does the UK have ?
obviously none by the sounds of that . . .
there is NO WAY anything like that would make it past AQIS & be allowed in here
obviously none by the sounds of that . . .
there is NO WAY anything like that would make it past AQIS & be allowed in here
borderterribles
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T'was on the BBC news here today about a Vietnamese woman being refused entry to Australia because they found " undeclared raw pork " in her luggage!
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we take quarantine & bio security VERY seriously in this country . . .
Border interception statistics
Between 5 November 2018 and 31 August 2019, we intercepted over 27 tonnes of pork on air travellers entering Australia. This includes:
African swine fever fears spike in Australia as woman deported for smuggling pork into Sydney airport
Tas Country Hour
By Eden Hynninen
Updated about an hour agoTue 15 Oct 2019, 12:49pm
Photo: Authorities have seized raw and cooked pork products at Sydney Airport. (Supplied: Australian Border Force)
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Audio: African swine fever fears grow as woman carrying pork deported (AM)
Related Story: A pig-killing disease is now on Australia's doorstep
Related Story: Sheep meat price surges as swine fever forces China to pay for protein
Related Story: Australian pork producer not taking chances with African swine fever
A 45-year-old Vietnamese woman has been expelled from Sydney Airport after biosecurity officers discovered a stash of undeclared pork and food items in her luggage.
Key points:
The woman was carrying 4.6 kilograms of pork and 470 grams of eggs, along with kilograms of quail, pate, fruit, garlic and squid.
Agriculture Minister Bridget McKenzie said the woman was stopped at the airport for a routine inspection on arrival.
More than a quarter of the world's pigs have been killed as African swine fever keeps spreading. Here's what we know.
Ms McKenzie said African swine fever was potentially the worst animal health disease the world had ever seen.
International travellers who import high-risk items can be refused entry into Australia and have their visas cancelled for extended periods of time.
A spokesperson from the Federal Agricultural Department confirmed that new test results reveal ASF has been detected in around 50 per cent of pork products stopped at international airports, up from 15 per cent from nine months ago.
Australian Pork Chief Executive Margo Andrae has commended the government's response to the pork discovery.
"The department has recently done testing in the last two weeks and in that two-week period there were 157 seizures that covered 418 individual products and almost 49 per cent of those products had ASF," Ms Andrae said.
Photo: Bags of uncooked pork were found in the woman's luggage at Sydney Airport on Saturday. (Supplied: Australian Border Force)
African swine fever a global threat
ASF is a highly contagious disease and is estimated to have wiped out 25 per cent of the world's pig population.
The pig-killing disease is on Australia's doorstep, with outbreaks in Timor-Leste.
Photo: Large numbers of pigs buried in China infected with African swine fever. (Sourced: @amlivemon, Twitter)
According to Timor-Leste's Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, there have been 100 reported outbreaks of African swine fever in the Dili municipality, in which 405 pigs have died.
Ms McKenzie said Australian veterinarians were in Timor-Leste helping with an eradication program.
The Minister said there were 2,700 pig producers in Australia and nearly 36,000 people employed in the local industry.
She said Australia needed to make sure the disease did not reach our shores and affect the local industry.
Border interception statistics
Between 5 November 2018 and 31 August 2019, we intercepted over 27 tonnes of pork on air travellers entering Australia. This includes:
- 11 tonnes at Sydney Airport
- 7.7 tonnes at Melbourne Airport
- 3.9 tonnes at Brisbane Airport
- 2.7 tonnes at Perth Airport
- 1.3 tonnes at Adelaide Airport
African swine fever fears spike in Australia as woman deported for smuggling pork into Sydney airport
Tas Country Hour
By Eden Hynninen
Updated about an hour agoTue 15 Oct 2019, 12:49pm
Photo: Authorities have seized raw and cooked pork products at Sydney Airport. (Supplied: Australian Border Force) Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume.
Audio: African swine fever fears grow as woman carrying pork deported (AM)
Related Story: A pig-killing disease is now on Australia's doorstep
Related Story: Sheep meat price surges as swine fever forces China to pay for protein
Related Story: Australian pork producer not taking chances with African swine fever
A 45-year-old Vietnamese woman has been expelled from Sydney Airport after biosecurity officers discovered a stash of undeclared pork and food items in her luggage.
Key points:
- In a first under new Australian biosecurity laws, a Vietnamese woman had her visitor visa cancelled for failing to declare food in her luggage
- This included 4.6kg of pork, a particular biosecurity risk given the spread of African swine fever (ASF)
- ASF has been detected in around 50 per cent of pork products stopped at international airports
The woman was carrying 4.6 kilograms of pork and 470 grams of eggs, along with kilograms of quail, pate, fruit, garlic and squid.
Agriculture Minister Bridget McKenzie said the woman was stopped at the airport for a routine inspection on arrival.
What is African swine fever?
More than a quarter of the world's pigs have been killed as African swine fever keeps spreading. Here's what we know.
Ms McKenzie said African swine fever was potentially the worst animal health disease the world had ever seen.
International travellers who import high-risk items can be refused entry into Australia and have their visas cancelled for extended periods of time.
A spokesperson from the Federal Agricultural Department confirmed that new test results reveal ASF has been detected in around 50 per cent of pork products stopped at international airports, up from 15 per cent from nine months ago.
Australian Pork Chief Executive Margo Andrae has commended the government's response to the pork discovery.
"The department has recently done testing in the last two weeks and in that two-week period there were 157 seizures that covered 418 individual products and almost 49 per cent of those products had ASF," Ms Andrae said.
Photo: Bags of uncooked pork were found in the woman's luggage at Sydney Airport on Saturday. (Supplied: Australian Border Force) African swine fever a global threat
ASF is a highly contagious disease and is estimated to have wiped out 25 per cent of the world's pig population.
The pig-killing disease is on Australia's doorstep, with outbreaks in Timor-Leste.
Photo: Large numbers of pigs buried in China infected with African swine fever. (Sourced: @amlivemon, Twitter) According to Timor-Leste's Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, there have been 100 reported outbreaks of African swine fever in the Dili municipality, in which 405 pigs have died.
Ms McKenzie said Australian veterinarians were in Timor-Leste helping with an eradication program.
The Minister said there were 2,700 pig producers in Australia and nearly 36,000 people employed in the local industry.
She said Australia needed to make sure the disease did not reach our shores and affect the local industry.
but surely it MUST be red tractor assured ? ???
Its OK,they get exported to Aus covered in chocolate.
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- East Yorkshire
Hard learnt lesson!
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- N.Lincs
You Australians should be commended for the way you are tackling this problem.we take quarantine & bio security VERY seriously in this country . . .
Border interception statistics
Between 5 November 2018 and 31 August 2019, we intercepted over 27 tonnes of pork on air travellers entering Australia. This includes:
African swine fever fears spike in Australia as woman deported for smuggling pork into Sydney airport
- 11 tonnes at Sydney Airport
- 7.7 tonnes at Melbourne Airport
- 3.9 tonnes at Brisbane Airport
- 2.7 tonnes at Perth Airport
- 1.3 tonnes at Adelaide Airport
Tas Country Hour
By Eden Hynninen
Updated about an hour agoTue 15 Oct 2019, 12:49pm
Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume.
Audio: African swine fever fears grow as woman carrying pork deported (AM)
Related Story: A pig-killing disease is now on Australia's doorstep
Related Story: Sheep meat price surges as swine fever forces China to pay for protein
Related Story: Australian pork producer not taking chances with African swine fever
A 45-year-old Vietnamese woman has been expelled from Sydney Airport after biosecurity officers discovered a stash of undeclared pork and food items in her luggage.
Key points:
This is the first overseas traveller to be deported under strict new quarantine laws intended to keep African swine fever (ASF) out of the country.
- In a first under new Australian biosecurity laws, a Vietnamese woman had her visitor visa cancelled for failing to declare food in her luggage
- This included 4.6kg of pork, a particular biosecurity risk given the spread of African swine fever (ASF)
- ASF has been detected in around 50 per cent of pork products stopped at international airports
The woman was carrying 4.6 kilograms of pork and 470 grams of eggs, along with kilograms of quail, pate, fruit, garlic and squid.
Agriculture Minister Bridget McKenzie said the woman was stopped at the airport for a routine inspection on arrival.
What is African swine fever?
More than a quarter of the world's pigs have been killed as African swine fever keeps spreading. Here's what we know.
Ms McKenzie said African swine fever was potentially the worst animal health disease the world had ever seen.
International travellers who import high-risk items can be refused entry into Australia and have their visas cancelled for extended periods of time.
A spokesperson from the Federal Agricultural Department confirmed that new test results reveal ASF has been detected in around 50 per cent of pork products stopped at international airports, up from 15 per cent from nine months ago.
Australian Pork Chief Executive Margo Andrae has commended the government's response to the pork discovery.
"The department has recently done testing in the last two weeks and in that two-week period there were 157 seizures that covered 418 individual products and almost 49 per cent of those products had ASF," Ms Andrae said.
African swine fever a global threat
ASF is a highly contagious disease and is estimated to have wiped out 25 per cent of the world's pig population.
The pig-killing disease is on Australia's doorstep, with outbreaks in Timor-Leste.
According to Timor-Leste's Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, there have been 100 reported outbreaks of African swine fever in the Dili municipality, in which 405 pigs have died.
Ms McKenzie said Australian veterinarians were in Timor-Leste helping with an eradication program.
The Minister said there were 2,700 pig producers in Australia and nearly 36,000 people employed in the local industry.
She said Australia needed to make sure the disease did not reach our shores and affect the local industry.
A bit off topic, but why on earth are these morons trying to smuggle pork into the country in the first place?
2700 pig producers isn't a lot for a country that size, I suppose, but it's not as though pig meat isn't available at all.
I don't do this foreign travel malarky but I thought baggage allowances were on the low side. Why would you want to waste it by loading up with pork
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That's typical of the double standards that become acceptable when stuff is cheap enough.
It will probably be sold as "Fair trade"
Campbell
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Being well aware of Aus and NZ bio secutity. I was watching a TV show about Heathrow and amazed at what foodstuff folks are allowed in here. One woman had bags of cooked and uncooked chicken in her case but customs said it was all OK...
kiwi pom
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Whenever I fly back into NZ from somewhere I find immigration and baggage claim a quick 5 minute breeze, customs always takes ages. I tend to declare I've been on a farm while away as sometimes the declare line is quicker. Last time the kids had their gumboots checked and the inspector found the worlds smallest bit of chaff in one of them, which was carefully placed in a plastic container, thought we were going to get locked up
foxbox
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Watched one of the other ones a few weeks back (possibly baked beans?) where the guy on the intake was saying the largest thing ever to fall out of the container was a large live lizard of some sort which they'd re-homed to the local zoo, they regularly found knives etc in the load too. Presumably the lizard had been shitting in the load all the way across the Atlantic but it appears as long as you collect the wriggly bits and shiny bits the rest is fine to be lobbed in the mix
Paddington
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The UK can't keep out thousands of illegal immigrants, never mind possibly contaminated food substances. Compared to Australia our bio security is non existent.
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