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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:
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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That's not good....
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- southern riverina Australia
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- NSW, Newstralya
We work closely with trading partners to support continued market access for our valuable agricultural industries. As part of our contingency planning, the Australian Government is investigating market access strategies to facilitate trade should ASF be detected in Australia.
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
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WTF.... 
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- NSW, Newstralya
27 tonnes . . .
On air travellers
On air travellers
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Deport the retards who flout biosecurity laws, I say.
Having watched Border Patrol at times, they all say "I forgot it was there" - how can you "forget" your luggage was crammed with food FFS
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They never time stamp these? Highest on record should read highest since recording started, then a disclaimer when digital recording came in.
Then it doesn't show how far over existing it beat previous or frequency of ranges against each other.
Its a very poor analysis, off a very limuted data set.
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They deported a vietnamese woman today for it.
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- Owaka, New Zealand
Good job, high time to toughen up on it here too
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Our borders are so open it's a joke. I was well grilled when I flew into NZ but arriving back at Heathrow all they wanted to know was whether I owed any import duty.
During the F&M outbreak in 2001 an anonymous customs officer in Dover wrote to The Times to say any illegal meat import checks were illusory. He said 30 people are supposed to check 10,000 shipping containers a day entering the port, before you even start to think about the passenger luggage.
Another at Heathrow wrote that he was stopping illegal meat imports daily in passenger luggage and they couldn't possibly be getting it all.
It's a good job that agriculture isn't important here any more
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Cheap pheasant feed surely? Looks like you've had the bottom of the bin of wheat that wasn't cleaned properly after it had barley in it.
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Quite a view this morning!
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That’s one grand picture ?
RushesToo
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I thought that was water, then realised mist, helluva relief.
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