Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2017L00537:schedule:2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2017L00537
Segment Type: schedule
Provision Reference: sch 2
Character Range: 4797–6963

Schedule 2—Reasons

Note: See paragraph 5(b).

Uncooked prawns marinated for human consumption, where certified free of WSSV and YHV by an overseas authority, and inspected on-arrival and tested for WSSV and YHV, represent an acceptable level of biosecurity risk that meets Australia's ALOP on the basis that:
 Uncooked marinated prawns released from biosecurity control will have an acceptably low prevalence of WSSV and YHV; and
     * Uncooked marinated prawns are considered sufficiently modified through processing to reduce their likelihood of diversion to unintended end-uses (bait, berley or aquatic animal feed) to an acceptably low level.
Certification by the overseas authority that batches are found to be free of WSSV and YHV, and on-arrival inspection and testing for WSSV and YHV, are considered necessary risk management measures for uncooked marinated prawns to meet an acceptably low level of biosecurity risk:
 Conditions on import permits may include:
– Exporting country certification that all batches of uncooked marinated prawns are found to be free of WSSV and YHV based on an OIE-recognised testing method to confirm freedom from disease. Overseas authority certification supports risk management across the biosecurity continuum.
     * Intervention on arrival may include:
– increased on-arrival inspections of all batches to ensure they meet the conditions specified on the import permit; and
– an appropriate level of on-arrival testing for WSSV and YHV. The appropriate level of testing for marinated prawns is 100 percent of batches with a sampling rate that provides 95 percent confidence at 5 percent prevalence, with 100 percent seals intact inspection; and
– holding the product in a premises covered by an approved arrangement pending confirmation of a negative test result from an approved Australian laboratory.
 Should a positive test result be found onshore, the measures may include:
–   ordering the product to be exported from Australian territory, destroyed or treated; or
–  if the importer requested, at the importer's expense, conducting a (positive result) retest at the Australian Animal Health Laboratory (AAHL).