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The Senate's Rural Affairs Committee has written to the country's head of quarantine, urging him to reverse the decision to allow pig meat imports into Australia. The committee has been conducting an inquiry into Biosecurity Australia's decision to approve pig meat imports and was due to hand down its findings later this week. But yesterday the IRA appeals panel dismissed six objections to the decision, paving the way for a new quarantine policy. Committee chair Liberal Senator Bill Heffernan...
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Waikato pig farmers have voted to continue their fight to eradicate a destructive disease in young pigs, despite biosecurity official advising it is impossible. The first in a series of nationwide meetings to develop a strategy of eradication was held in Hamilton last night. Pork Industry Board chief executive Angus Davidson said it had voted two-to-one in favour of further work on eradicating post-weaning multisystemic wasting syndrome (PMWS). "Support is being offered to farmers. A farm...
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Biosecurity officials say 25 piggeries between Whangarei and Taranaki have been confirmed or provisionally confirmed as having a serious pig disease. More than half of the farms with post-weaning multisystemic wasting syndrome (PMWS) -- which kills young pigs -- are in the wider Waikato, where 20 per cent of the country's pig farms are based. Hundreds more farms around the country are being investigated. The disease was diagnosed at Ted and Irene Graham's piggery at Orini, 24km east of Huntly,...
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