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Australia stresses disease-free status after Indonesia suspends four trade facilities

 

File image of export cattle in an Australian pre-export quarantine facility.

The Australian Government is moving to assure international trading partners that Australia remains free from lumpy skin disease (LSD), after an Indonesian Government agency made the surprise move late on Friday to suspend imports from four Australian facilities.

Indonesia’s Agriculture and Quarantine Agency (IAQA) advised Australia’s Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF) late on Friday afternoon that LSD had been detected in a small number of Australian cattle exported to…

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