Biosecurity Magazine - 2008

Contents

• Editorial - New Zealand Biosecuirity Summit
• Biosecurity Summit highlights
• Biocontrol expert wins award
• BMAC recommends more container improvements
• Biosecurity "at speed of commerce"
• Biosecurity Science Strategy making a difference
• Science the key to fighting avian influenza
• Searching for the perfect possum control
• Tissue culture – how safe is safe?
• Diagnostic technologies – complementing new advances with old skills
• How can wildlife help detect emerging diseases?
• High tech lab-to-market challenges
• Improving sea container clearance
• Pacific port improvements pay off for NZ
• Shipping industry challenges
• Introduced marine species a major threat
• “We all pay for barnacles”
• The future of pest management
• Experiences from the World Organisation for Animal Health By Dr Rebecca Jennings
• Regional animal welfare gets a boost
• Marine biosecurity: managing risk through regional partnerships
• Raising awareness in the marine area
• FITEC outstanding achievers announced
• New MAF animal welfare magazine coming soon
• Import Health Standard consultation
• Animal manipulation statistics due

Contents

• Editorial - Border Standards: Who we are and what we do
• Analysis and Profiling: using information to manage biosecurity risks at the border
• Containing Sea Container Biosecurity Risk
• Scrap Metal - full of biosecurity surprises
• Mossie Contractor Rescues Trapped Farmer
• Pest Mosquito Eliminated from Kaipara
• A day in the life of a technical writer
• Review to Reduce Risks from Imported Vehicles and Machinery
• Good Training Important for Rookies and Old Hands
• Biosecurity Inspectors - who are we?
• Certificate in Biosecurity Presentation
• Tackling Marine Pests
• Helping ID Pest Plants
• MAFBNZ no longer funding Dutch Elm Disease programme
• Biosecurity Surveillance Strategy- have your say
• Animal Welfare International Update
• Researchers Urged to Speak Out
• Animal Care Technician's Award
• Australian Science Week Attracts Kiwis
• Lab Wins Award for Seafood Toxin Test
• Bird Welfare Matters, World's Poultry Congress Told
• Varroa South Island Controlled Area Change
• Students Enjoy Seeing Inspectors in Action

Contents

• Editorial - Good Diagnostics Demands Good Science
• Plant Pest and Disease Focus for Laboratories
• Expansion of Quarantine Capabilities
• Insects Working 'Leg-in-Hand' With Gardeners
• Working together to make a difference at the border: Diagnostic training for Fiji Quarantine and Inspection Service
• Trade Pathway for Table Grapes from Mexico Reinstated
• Only Teamwork Can Make a Team Work
• Veterinary Forensics a Tool in Animal Cruelty Cases
• Cutting Didymo Off at the Pass
• Bio-control for Glassy-winged Sharpshooter in Cook Islands
• Survey Uncovers New Viruses in New Zealand's Allium Crops
• New Zealander Leads International Animal Welfare Efforts Following Myanmar Disaster
• Quality Fruit Exports Ensured Through Pre-inspection Programme
• Lessons Learnt from Emergency Medical Evacuation
• DNA Fingerprinting Lifted Lid on Bovine Tb
• Marine Invasive Taxonomic Service
• Diagnostics and Detective Work: Learning What Ails New Zealand Trees
• New 'Candidatus Liberibacter' Species Infecting Solanaceous Crops
• Remote Microscopy Connects us to Experts through Internet
• Laboratory Accreditation Enhances International Credibility
• Lincoln Diagnostic Lab Moves to New Facility
• Animal Care: Many benefits from voluntary accreditation
• Animal Welfare Disaster Management Course
• 13th International Congress on Infectious Diseases: Avian influenza remains in the spotlight
• Jubilee Conference Celebrates SPCA's Achievements

Contents

• Editorial - Securing future market access through animal identification and tracing
• New National Animal Identification and Tracing system approved
• VectorNet: A tool to plan, manage and control pest control activities
• Pole position for V8 pre-inspection
• Canoe club gets serious about didymo
• Gypsy moth levy unchanged in 2008-09
• Snake training put to good use in Tauranga
• Critical veterinary shortage in Pacific islands
• Ornamental fish focus for PhD project
• Better communication on welfare urged
• Where chickens may roost

Contents

• Editorial - Building partnerships to strengthen readiness and response
• MAF and oil industry work together to protect New Zealand
• Northland battles Manchurian wild rice
• Livestock production and processing: coordination of animal welfare compliance and enforcement management
• New rules around vehicle emissions create busy spell for MAFBNZ car inspectors
• Platypus threaten living cultural treasures
• Pyp grass response: a partnership in action!
• If bird flu broke out, how would DOC cope?
• National Interest Pest Responses: A working partnership
• Biosecurity surveillance for small forest plantations
• MAFBNZ and NZEHA work together to prevent and control equine disease
• AgResearch and ESR scientists work to prevent salmonella epidemics
• Massey University OIE Animal Welfare Centre
• New Farm Forestry Association website on forest pests and diseases

Contents

• Editorial - Better systems + better communications = better incursion responses
• Biosecurity integral to long-term planning
• Avian and pandemic influenza preparedness activities: 2007
• Hands across the Tasman: How the International Animal Health Emergency Reserve would work
• On track for eradication
• Protecting and promoting human health
• Australian termites in New Zealand
• Soil solarisation to eradicate boil smut
• So where the bloody hell are the grapes?
• Equine influenza vaccination - a complex issue
• Expat plant communities useful biosecurity sentinels
• Pests and Diseases Image Library workshop
• Phytophthora kernoviae: Past investigation throws up new answers
• New biosecurity response model

Contents

• Editorial - Aligning our Biosecurity Efforts
• Leverage for Biodiversity Protection on Private Land
• New Zealand's Forest Survey Activities Praised
• Incursion Investigators Support Australian Equine Influenza Response
• Getting Vets up to speed on Equine Influenza
• Equine influenza: Links with equine groups essential for disease preparedness
• Making Work a Breeze at Windy Waterfront
• Assisi Award for Outstanding Contribution to Animal Welfare
• Europeans developing a common vision for animal welfare
• Food animal agriculture in 2020
• Equine Influenza: A laboratory learning experience in an exotic disease response
• Responding to exotic disease alerts - the role of IDC Wallaceville
• Conservation management strategies
• Coordination adds value to pest management programmes
• Australian animal welfare workshop considers international perspectives