American Foulbrood National Pest Management Strategy Discussion Document

American foulbrood is a serious disease of honeybees. Since 1998, the National American Foulbrood Pest Management Strategy has imposed requirements on beekeepers and others in their management of American foulbrood. The original ten-year term of the strategy expires on 30 September 2008. The Minister for Biosecurity has notified a review of this strategy to determine if it should be continued, and if so, whether any amendments are necessary. Submissions on the strategy and on American foulbrood management are requested by 5pm, 30 January 2009.

Please Note: The electronic version of the Discussion Document below was updated on 10 October, 2008. When first published electronically on 2 October, 2008,  it was found to contain a number of minor formatting and proof-reading errors.  In addition, the following changes were made to the version below:

Page 6, the word "supplanted" has been corrected to read "supplemented"
Page 18 (4.5.5) the second -to-last paragraph and the text box seeking comments have been added, after it was inadvertently deleted from the previous version.

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