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Senate inquiry recommends biosecurity import levy

What does Swiss Cheese have to do with biosecurity? This illustrative infographic developed by Dr Aaron Dodd of the University of Melbourne, and highlighted in the senate inquiry report, shows how multi-layered biosecurity strategies work: – “Biosecurity is like a block of swiss cheese,” Dr Dodd explains. “Every slide has holes, but when those holes are lined up, they are almost impenetrable. For more than 150 years, these systems have kept FMD out”. (see more on the Melb Uni web page here)

 

INCREASED funding for biosecurity via the introduction of a levy on imports has been…

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