Biosecurity Magazine - 2000

Issue 24 - 15 December 2000

Contents

• Keeping an eye out for unwanted invaders
• Biosecurity pre-clearance: returning our troops from East Timor
• The Biosecurity Policy team
• $2.8 million to get the public’s attention
• Weaving a biosecurity information web
• Accreditation of treatment suppliers
• Import health standards for table grapes
• Airports as places of first arrival
• MAF beefs up exotic animals response capability
• New Zealand free of Brucella canis
• Varroa update
• Biodiversity and phytosanitary systems
• Hannover animal health and welfare meeting
• Codes of welfare have new significance
• Biosecurity strategy terms of reference
• MAF lobbies for kiwi apple access to Australia
• MAF plant exports team responsibilities
• Fruit fly eggs intercepted on Australian citrus
• No new signs of subterranean termites
• Gum leaf skeletoniser response continues
• Synthetic pheromone to help in painted apple moth programme

Issue 23 - 1 November 2000

Contents

• On the border: keeping unwanted invaders at bay
• Contaminated machinery refused entry
• K9 capers
• The thin green line: MAF’s Enforcement Unit
• EU prosecutions
• Fumigation operator suspended
• Border Management Group responsibilities
• Sparrow deaths investigated
• Varroa update
• Johne’s disease review completed
• Risk disk: a risk analysis resource on CD
• MAF Biosecurity contracts: how the system works
• Canine brucellosis tests under scrutiny
• Animal Welfare Act sets key advisory committees in law
• Review of consultative forums
• Interceptions of black widow spiders on California grapes
• Bilateral quarantine arrangement for importation of plant propagation material
• Gum leaf skeletoniser kept in check
• International liaison

Issue 22 - 15 September 2000

Contents

• Bovine Tb strategy
• Biosecurity begins away from home
• Tb tests approved
• Appropriate level of protection: the concept
• Varroa update
• Termites down and out in Otorohanga?
• Noxious weeds knocked back
• A new era in animal welfare
• Australians address layer hen standards
• Massey animal welfare centre launched

Issue 21 - 8 August 2000

Contents

• Varroa decision explained
• Tightening the biosecurity net
• Draft risk analysis policy for consultation
• Process for conducting import risk analyses
• Animal welfare – a growth area
• Dutch elm disease under control
• Painted apple moth update
• Interim Commission on Phytosanitary Measures
• Risk Group 2 pests
• Biosecurity research areas agreed

Issue 20 - 15 June 2000

Contents

• Notifiable organisms
• Notifiable organisms affecting animals
• Revised risk analysis on chicken meat imports
• Serious honey bee parasite found in New Zealand
• World organisation for animal health meets

Issue 19 - 1 May 2000

Contents

• Towards a national biosecurity strategy
• Towards a biosecurity strategy for New Zealand
• Disclosure of information for voluntary disease programmes
• Biosecurity Authority to launch new publication

Issue 18 - 15 March 2000

Contents

• Horse and horse semen import risk analysis
• New policy statement sets out commitment to consult
• MAF Biosecurity Authority policy statement on consultation

Issue 17 - 1 Februrary 2000

Contents

• Fragile ecosystems under threat?
• Biosecurity research strategy
• Bioresearch areas for New Zealand
• Plans to enhance laboratory diagnosis of exotic diseases