Reply With QuoteCODES OF PRACTICE FOR THE USE AND DISPOSAL OF IMPORTED AQUATIC ANIMAL PRODUCTS
Biosecurity australian policy memorandum 2006/16
Prawns and prawn products
There will be days when the fishing is better than one's most optimistic forecast, others when it is far worse. Either is a gain over just staying home.
CODES OF PRACTICE FOR THE USE AND DISPOSAL OF IMPORTED AQUATIC ANIMAL PRODUCTS
There will be days when the fishing is better than one's most optimistic forecast, others when it is far worse. Either is a gain over just staying home.
ANIMAL QUARANTINE POLICY MEMORANDUM 2000/29
There will be days when the fishing is better than one's most optimistic forecast, others when it is far worse. Either is a gain over just staying home.
Bit more info on this subject
Current Import Risk Analysis: Prawns and Prawn Products
The following list contains documents relating to the import risk analysis for Prawns and Prawn Products.
If you experience any trouble accessing the file in the following downloadable formats, a copy can be obtained from:
Animal Biosecurity
GPO Box 858, Canberra ACT 2601
animalbiosecurity@daff.gov.au
Ph: +61 2 6272 4465
Fax: +61 2 6272 3399
Reference documents
BAPM Description Word PDF
2006/16
2006/16a
Revised IRA Team Membership & Progress Report, 16/5/06
Summary of TSV infection challenges
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[182KB]
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ABPM Description Word PDF
2004/05 IRA Team Membership, 2/3/04
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2003/16 Progress Report, 30/6/03 [51KB]
[173KB]
2003/11
Bait and Berley Survey of Recreational Fishers, 2/4/03
[42KB]
[139KB]
2002/33
2002/33a
Quarantine Review: Highly Processed Prawn Products, 25/6/02
Interim Import Conditions
[56KB]
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[39KB]
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2002/32
Progress Report, 24/6/02
[75KB] [191KB]
2002/16
Progress Report, 22/4/02
[72KB] [120KB]
2002/11
2002/11a
Non-Viable Prawn & Prawn Products - Release of Progress Report, 25/3/02
Progress Report: Summary of Stakeholder responses to Draft IRA Report for discussion at Public Stakeholder Meetings
[72KB]
[122KB]
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2001/11
2001/11a
Importation of Uncooked Prawn & Prawn Products: Advice on Quarantine Measures, 28/5/01
Interim Conditions, 28/5/01
[54KB]
[28KB]
[28KB]
[31KB]
2001/06 Uncooked (Green Prawns): Tighter Import Conditions, 7/2/01 [82KB] [38KB]
2000/57 Uncooked (Green Prawns): Interim Conditions, 14/12/00 [34KB] [21KB]
2000/41
2000/41a
Release of Draft IRA Paper, 25/8/00
Draft Report
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[1.05MB]
[16KB]
[463KB]
2000/19 Progress Report, 7/3/00 [28KB] [19KB]
1999/20 Progress Report, 11/3/99 [18KB] [23KB]
1998/86
1998/86a
1998/86b
1998/86c
Release of Technical Issues Paper, 14/11/98
Technical Issues Paper
Scope and Issues Paper
Annex 1: Review of Pathogens of Prawns
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1998/42 Progress Report, 8/5/98 [14KB] [18KB]
1998/19 Outcome of an Appeal against process, 19/2/98 [13KB] [15KB]
http://www.daff.gov.au/content/publi...B00184796DBEE3
There will be days when the fishing is better than one's most optimistic forecast, others when it is far worse. Either is a gain over just staying home.
Good on yer James.........stick it to 'em mate. My thanks to all the others that are giving of their time to chase this up.Originally Posted by Big_unit
Going off topic here but further to what one member wrote about additives. I bought milk to day with 12 days shelf life on it and eggs with 5 weeks
kev
Kev, I agree mate, How do eggs stay good for 5 weeks ? I know in the fridge they stand a better than average chance of not going off, but blehh, after that long in the fridge they wouldn't be that nice to eat !
James, as Kingtin said mate, how did you go pls ?
Russ
If men are from Mars, and women are from Venus, politicians must be from uranus ?
I have just read an article from the 'Bulletin', dated 29Nov. '05. Titled 'Things that batter', by Anthony Hoy.
Interesting read, while this article is not about overseas prawns it does cover the rubbish fish (basa), that certain parties believe is good enough for us to eat. It mentions some curious farming methods and also ways to keep seafood looking good for extended periods,(wonder if our supermarkets are using these chemicals also?) Great to see the standards are one sided in relation to quality of products.
I'm not 100% on how to get this article onto these pages.
I've also heard the chemicals used to treat bacteria in these ponds,(for prawns and fish) could very well be cancer causing agents, i'll keep looking in to it but my research skills aren't the best.
Fish and chips, a wedge of lemon, lashings of batter and salt – a splash of vinegar to dilute the grease, perhaps – and all washed down with a soft drink, a frosty ale or a glass of vino.
December, the start of the long, hot summer. Bring on the lazy weekends and coastal holidays. Forget slaving over a hot stove or a barbecue: dinner is served, at the beach, in cardboard cartons, or parcelled up in newsprint lined with greaseproof paper.
But something is missing, and it’s not the seagulls or the flies. The good, fresh, local catch that Australians have for generations associated with their fish and chips – the flathead, snapper, silver and john dory, red fish, bream and whiting – are in increasingly short supply and, as a result, are becoming prohibitively expensive.
In their place in the fish-and-chips pack, like it or not, is “Pacific dory”, the so-called “catch of the day” – an innocuous skinless, boneless and bland-flavoured fillet.
Pacific dory is now Australia’s biggest-selling fish, according to the Master Fish Merchants Association (MFMA). With sales approaching a staggering 7000 tonnes this year, it is driving a fish shop revolution. Says MFMA chief executive, Michael Kitchener: “Because it is relatively cheap, retailing at around $10 per kilogram, the public love it.”
The problem, according to the chairman of the Australian Fish Names Committee, Roy Palmer, is that Pacific dory has never seen the Pacific – or any other ocean, for that matter. And it is nothing like a dory.
Here’s food for thought: the fish you will probably sink your teeth into the next time you are beachside and hungry has been raised in cages suspended under houseboats and barges in the crowded and polluted waters of Vietnam’s Mekong River.
The same snap-frozen and imported fish, says Palmer, is being sold as a popular line in Australian supermarkets under the deceptive marketing label, “freshwater fillet”.
It is Pangasius bocourti, one of 21 species of freshwater catfish found in the Mekong basin, and – in a move designed to curb deceptive naming practices by fishmongers and supermarkets – last year christened “basa” under Seafood Services Australia’s uniform fish names process.
“Basa’s success in the marketplace has been a key factor in fish imports from Vietnam doubling in 2002-03 and then doubling again last year,” says managing director of the Sydney Fish Market, Grahame Turk.
An estimated 300,000 to 400,000 Vietnamese are involved in the government-owned basa fishery. It produces more basa than Australia’s total seafood production of 550,000 tonnes a year, according to Turk, who is also deputy chairman of the Australian Seafood Industry Council. Vietnam’s basa production, Turk says, is expected to reach 1 million tonnes a year within five years. Vietnam’s catfish exports have already decimated the local catfish industry in the US where producers are fighting back.
There is no basa-farming standard among Vietnamese processors, according to the American domestic fishing lobby, thus there is no distinction in the marketplace between professionally farmed product and caged fish from Mekong houseboats and barges.
Sewage systems along the Mekong struggle to keep pace with rapid development, and run-off from the river’s hinterland is polluted by fertilisers and pesticides.
American industry sources claim large stocks of basa are fed through holes cut in the floors of houseboats, the human waste from which also goes straight into the river. Food for the fish includes vegetable and crop waste, rice bran and animal waste.
The Mekong and associated aquaculture ponds have a high silt concentration, say the Americans, and it is common Vietnamese practice to soak the basa fillets in sodium tripolyphosphate (STPP), a chemical used as a preservative and seafood “texturiser”.
This means that consumers who purchase basa by weight from Australian #supermarkets need to be wary, because fish treated with STPP retain more water.
In August, the American states of Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana suspended the sale of all Vietnamese aquatic products, following the discovery of the antibiotics ciprofloxacin and enrofloxacin in basa imports.
Ciprofoxacin and enrofloxacin – prohibited in western countries because of the risk of their transferring resistant micro-organisms to humans – were being used by some Mekong River basa producers to combat salmonella and other disease in fish.
The antibiotics can also lead to the development of the infectious disease campylobacter, which can cause diarrhoea, abdominal pain, fever, nausea and vomiting. Vietnam’s Ministry of Fisheries has foreshadowed restrictions on the use of 11 antibiotics in its aquatic products sector.The use of the name basa in place of Pacific dory is not yet mandatory in Australia, says Roy Palmer, “even though there are a lot of reasons why it should be”.
An Australian standard for fish names is expected to be launched early in the new year, as a preliminary step towards legislative controls.
“One of the problems is that every state has different arrangements,” Palmer says. “Until there is uniformity, people can drive holes through these issues.
“And the Australian Quarantine Inspection Service [charged with responsibility for making sure imports meet Australian food standards] does not check fish names. This remains a big problem.”
OMIGOD !!
Now I feel green (no offence to Ausfish membebr Green by the way)
Sigh
And to think the good old school shark was the staple fish and chips for years, and before that the humble Gem fish
How sad it is!
If men are from Mars, and women are from Venus, politicians must be from uranus ?
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