Ausveg calls for biosecurity consistency on cut flower imports

Ashley Walmsley
Updated August 20 2020 - 1:04pm, first published August 11 2020 - 7:00pm
RISKY: According to Ausveg, an import permit system established in September 2019 for shipments of cut flowers and foliage to Australia from Kenya, Colombia and Ecuador has not resulted in reduced non-compliance from imported cut flowers to an acceptable level.
RISKY: According to Ausveg, an import permit system established in September 2019 for shipments of cut flowers and foliage to Australia from Kenya, Colombia and Ecuador has not resulted in reduced non-compliance from imported cut flowers to an acceptable level.

THE threat from cross-over diseases and pests from imported cut flowers isn't being taken seriously according to the vegetable industry.

Ashley Walmsley

Ashley Walmsley

Editor, Good Fruit & Vegetables

Ashley Walmsley is the editor of ACM's only national, fresh produce magazine, Good Fruit & Vegetables, while also covering horticulture stories for the agricultural papers and websites. He also writes the weekly, The Ringer, column in the Qld Country Life.

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