Bio-secure Business

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Bio-secure Business
Rod Turner, General Manager Programs, Plant
Health Australia
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What is Plant Health Australia?
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• Peak body providing national biosecurity
  coordination
• Custodians of the Emergency Plant Pest Response
  Deed (EPPRD)
• Public Company Limited by guarantee (formed 2000)
  after recommendation in the 1996 Nairn review

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• Membership and (Funding)
• Australian Government (1/3rd)
• State/territory governments (1/3rd)
• Peak plant industry body members (1/3rd)

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• Government
• Australian Government
• ACT Government
• Northern Territory Government
• NSW Government
• Queensland Government
• South Australian Government
• Tasmanian Government
• Victorian Government
• West Australian Government

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• Associate
• GRDC
• CSIRO
• BSES Ltd
• Australasian Plant Pathology Society
• Horticulture Australia Ltd
• CRDC
• CRC National Plant Biosecurity

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Industry Members
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Emergency Plant Pest Response Deed
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• World first for plants came into force 26
  October 2005
• Legal document legally binding
• Provides equal role for government and industry
  in decision making
• First time industry have had a say in decisions
  which directly affect them
• An agreed approach by all to incursion management
• Must be Member of PHA to sign EPPRD

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• Articulates responsibilities for each party
  (preparedness / emergency response / risk
  mitigation)
• EPPRD signed by all governments and 27 industries
  with more expected
• Shared role in decision making
• Sharing of costs (public vs private benefits of
  eradication)
• Potential liabilities are known in advance
• Reimbursement to growers for crop destruction
  for approved response plans

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• Nationally consistent and agreed approach to
  incursion management
• Australian Government agreement to underwrite
  industry liabilities
• Trained and accredited personnel to work on
  response
• Commitment to risk mitigation

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• The EPPRD only operates for the
• ERADICATION of EMERGENCY PLANT PESTS (EPPs)
• An EPP is an organism that is injurious to plants
  and is
• A new pest to Australia
• A different variation or strain of established
  pest
• A previously unknown pest
• A confined or contained pest
• With National or regional economic significance

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• For eradication to be attempted, the response
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• be technically feasible
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• have positive Benefit / Cost Analysis (BCA

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• Pest Categorisation

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• The Cost Sharing split between Industry and
  Government is determined by the CATEGORY of the
  Pest.
• The Category is determined by the Relevant
  Parties after they receive a recommendation from
  the Categorisation Group.
• The Categorisation Group is made up of technical
  and economic experts from Industry and Government
• If more than one Industry Party is involved, the
  Industry share is further divided between all the
  Affected Industries using a method based on the
  IMPACT of the Pest on their Industry and the LVP
  of the Industry.

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• Group comprises
• Independent chair from PHA
• Standing representative of industry parties
• Three technical experts
• Person with relevant economic expertise
• Nominee from each plant industry or industries
  affected by the EPP being categorised
• Categorisation Group may also seek advice from
  others

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Category 1 high public benefit 100
Government funding
Ceratocystis ulmi (Dutch elm disease)
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Category 2 high public and private benefits
80 Government, 20 Industry
Trogoderma granarium (Khapra beetle)
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Category 3 moderate public and private benefit
50 Government, 50 Industry
Guignardia bidwellii (Black rot of grapes)
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Category 4 mainly or highly private benefit
20 Government, 80 Industry
Mythimna unipuncta (Armyworm)
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So, what happens when we havean incursion?
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National Management Group
(NMG) - POLICY Consultative Committee on
Emergency Plant Pests (CCEPP) -
TECHNICAL Industry Liaison Coordinator (ILC) /
Industry Liaison Officer (ILO) State Pest Control
Headquarters (SPCHQ) and Local Pest Control
Centre (LPCC) Domestic Quarantine and Market
Access Working Group (DQMAWG) Pest Categorisation
Group (PCG)
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Industry Biosecurity Plans
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• Planning to reduce risks posed by EPPs
• Development of biosecurity risk mitigation plans
• Developed by Industry Biosecurity Group (IBG)
  industry, government (national and state level)
  and RD organisations
• Once launched reviewed periodically

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Agreed high priority pest list

Threat identification
Threat summary tables
Pest risk assessment
Risk mitigation practices
Identification of current biosecurity practices
Preparedness
Pest-specific preparedness
Industry Biosecurity Plan Development
Outlining implementation strategy
Implementation
Industry
Roles and responsibilities
Governments
IBP document review strategy
Communication and consultation strategy
includes fact sheets, pest risk reviews,
contingency plans and diagnostic protocols
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Industry biosecurity risk mitigation activities

• People and product management
• Examples include
• Exclusion activities
• Using pest-free propagation materials
• Post-harvest product management

• Government and industry-wide risk mitigation
• Examples include
• Quarantine legislation and regulations
• Movement and import restrictions based on
  biosecurity risk
• Farm level exclusion activities

• Equipment and vehicle management
• Examples include
• Use of dedicated equipment in high risk areas
• Managing vehicle movement during high risk times
• Provision of parking and wash-down facilities
  on-farm

• Pest management and farm hygiene
• Examples include
• Pest surveillance activities
• Control of vectors
• Destruction of crop residues
• Control of alternative hosts and weeds
• Destruction of neglected crops
• Use of warning and information signs
• Reporting suspect pests

• Training, research and Quality Assurance
• Examples include
• Awareness and training activities
• Inclusion of biosecurity in IBMP and QA schemes
• Response and management research and development
  for key pests

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Biosecurity Manual
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Importance of Biosecurity

• Biosecurity Manuals highlight five key areas of
  risk
• People movement
• Product movement
• Vehicles and equipment
• Feed and water
• Feral animals and weeds

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• Developed in partnership with the industry
• Highlights biosecurity best practice for product
  management, personnel, vehicles and equipment, as
  well as pollination services
• high priority plant pests covered
• Contains checklist, nursery checklist, visitor
  register and pest surveillance data sheet
• to be used in your day to day farm management
  practices
• Useful contacts for further information

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Relevance to NGIA members
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• YOU ARE OR
• PERCIEVED TO BE
• RISK CREATORS

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• This financial year there has been 13 Emergency
  Plant Pest incursions

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• NGIAs - John McDonald has been on all of them
• Many industries on none

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• NGIA involved due to the large range and variety
  of plants produced

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• Where other industry not party to EPPRD NGIA
  potentially liable if you agree at NMG

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Example of potential impactWhite flies and
virus transmission
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  Primary host group Primary host group Primary host group Primary host group
Virus name Broadacre Nursery Vegetable Other/Unknown
Abutilon mosaic virus   1    
Acalypha yellow mosaic virus       1
African cassava mosaic virus   1   1
Ageratum enation virus       1
Ageratum yellow vein virus       1
Asystasia golden mosaic virus       1
Bean calico mosaic virus 1 1    
Bean distortion dwarf virus 1      
Bean dwarf mosaic virus 1 1    
Bean golden mosaic virus 1      
Bean golden yellow mosaic virus 1   1 1
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Bhendi yellow vein mosaic virus     1  
Cabbage leaf curl virus     1  
Calopogonium golden mosaic virus 1     1
Chayote mosaic virus     1  
Chilli leaf curl virus     1  
Chino del tomate virus   1 1 1
Cotton leaf crumple virus 1 1   1
Cotton leaf curl virus 1      
Cotton yellow mosaic virus 1      
Cowpea golden mosaic virus 1      
Croton yellow vein mosaic virus       1
Cucurbit leaf curl virus   1 1  
Dicliptera yellow mottle virus       1
Dolichos yellow mosaic virus     1  
East African cassava mosaic virus       1
Eclipta yellow vein virus   1    
Eggplant yellow mosaic virus     1  
Eupatorium yellow vein virus 1 1    
Euphorbia mosaic virus 1 1    
Hollyhock leaf crumple virus   1    
Honeysuckle yellow vein mosaic virus   1    
Horsegram yellow mosaic virus 1   1 1
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Indian cassava mosaic virus      
Ipomoea crinkle leaf curl virus   1  
Ipomoea yellow vein virus   1  
Jatropha mosaic virus   1  
Kenaf infecting virus   1  
Leonurus mosaic virus 1 1  
Limabean golden mosaic virus 1    
Lupin leaf curl virus   1  
Macroptilium golden mosaic virus     1
Macroptilium yellow mosaic virus     1
Macrotyloma mosaic virus     1
Malva infecting virus   1  
Malvaceous chlorosis virus   1  
Malvastrum yellow vein virus      
Melon chlorotic leaf curl virus   1  
Melon leaf curl virus   1  
Merremia mosaic virus   1 1
Mungbean yellow mosaic virus 1    
Okra leaf curl virus     1
Okra mosaic virus     1
Okra yellow vein mosaic virus     1
Papaya leaf curl virus   1 1
Papaya mosaic virus   1  
Passiflora leaf mottle virus   1  
Pepper golden mosaic virus 1   1
Pepper hausteco yellow vein virus     1
Pepper leaf curl virus     1
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Pepper mild tigre virus     1  
Pepper yellow leaf curl virus     1  
Poinsettia leaf curl virus   1    
Potato deforming mosaic virus     1 1
Potato yellow mosaic virus     1  
Pseuderanthemum yellow vein virus   1    
Rhynchosia golden mosaic virus 1     1
Rhynchosia mosaic virus 1     1
Sida golden mosaic virus 1 1    
Sida golden yellow vein virus   1    
Sida infecting virus   1   1
Sida mottle virus   1    
Sida yellow mosaic virus   1    
Sida yellow vein virus   1    
Solanum apical leaf curl virus     1 1
South African cassava mosaic virus       1
Soybean crinkle leaf virus 1      
Soybean golden mosaic virus 1      
Squash leaf curl virus 1 1 1  
Squash mild leaf curl virus     1  
Squash yellow mild mottle virus   1 1  
Sri Lankan cassava mosaic virus       1
Stachytarpheta leaf curl virus       1
Sweet potato leaf curl virus   1 1  
Tobacco apical stunt virus 1      
Tobacco curly shoot virus 1      
Tobacco leaf curl virus 1 1 1  
Tobacco leaf rugose virus 1      
Tomato chlorotic mottle virus     1  
Tomato chlorotic vein virus     1  
Tomato crinkle virus     1  
Tomato curly stunt virus     1  
Tomato dwarf leaf curl virus     1  
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Tomato golden mosaic virus     1  
Tomato golden mottle virus     1  
Tomato leaf curl virus 1 1 1 1
Tomato yellow mild mottle virus     1  
Tomato yellow mosaic virus     1 1
Tomato yellow mottle virus 1   1  
Tomato yellow vein streak virus     1  
Triumffeta yellow vein virus       1
Watermelon chlorotic stunt virus   1   1
Watermelon curly mottle virus   1    
Wissadula golden mosaic virus       1
Zinnia leaf curl virus   1    
Cassava brown streak virus       1
Cowpea mild mottle virus 1   1 1
Cucumber vein yellowing virus   1 1 1
Frenchbean crinkle stunt virus 1      
Oxalis leaf curl virus       1
Pumpkin yellow vein mosaic virus     1  
Squash yellow leaf curl virus     1  
Sweet potato mild mottle virus   1 1  
Sweet potato yellow dwarf virus   1 1  
Beet pseudoyellows virus   1 1 1
Diodia vein chlorosis virus   1    
Abutilon yellows virus   1    
Cucurbit yellow stunting disorder virus   1 1  
Lettuce chlorosis virus     1  
Lettuce infectious yellows virus   1 1 1
Potato yellow vein virus 1 1 1 1
Sweet potato chlorotic stunt virus   1 1  
Sweet potato chlorotic stunt virus   1 1  
Tomato chlorosis virus     1 1
Tomato chlorosis virus     1 1
Tomato infectious chlorosis virus 1 1 1 1
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• Through Biosecurity planning and application of
  biosecurity practices risk reduced

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• QUESTIONS
• For More Information
• Phone [phone]
• E-mail Rodney Turner (rturner_at_phau.com.au)
• Web page www.planthealthaustralia.com.au