Nick Sherry (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Superannuation and Corporate Law) Share this | Hansard source

Following advice that Australia has a newly identifiable strain of the prawn virus—and I will use the acronym, IHHNV—and that it is not considered feasible to undertake a national eradication or control program, Biosecurity Australia have reviewed the interim quarantine conditions for prawns and prawn products and removed the requirements relating to IHHNV. AQIS implemented the amended interim quarantine conditions from 11 September 2008. This means that uncooked prawn meat exported to Australia from all countries will no longer need to be tested for IHHNV. The prawn meat will be tested for other disease agents of quarantine concern. These are white spot syndrome virus and yellow head virus. (Time expired)