Farmers Want Tougher Biosecurity Penalties

A foot-and-mouth disease outbreak in Australia would trigger export bans and have severe economic consequences for Australia’s livestock producers. Australia's Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment

Farmers have called for increased penalties after an Indonesian man was caught attempting to smuggle six kilograms of duck and meat products into Australia.

The traveller failed to declare 3.1 kilograms of duck, 1.4 kilograms of beef rendang, over 500 grams of frozen beef and nearly 900 grams of chicken in his luggage.