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The manual will be launched at a seminar for WA producers, hosted by the Portec Multi-Site Producer group, in Perth on 5 June. Agriculture Western Australia senior research officer Bruce Mullan said the manual and seminar complemented recent workshops on Foot and Mouth Disease and general biosecurity. Mr Mullan said the manual would be an excellent tool for producers who were concerned about maintaining high health status in their herds. He said producers were mainly concerned about keeping their herds free of local diseases such as pneumonia. The major exotic threat was Foot and Mouth Disease.