Wesslesbron disease No risk management was required for rinderpest as the disease was declared globally eradicated by the OIE in 2011. Additional biosecurity measures The risk assessment determined that the risk of the following disease agents with the importation of fresh beef and beef product from the applicant countries was considered negligible, provided there is compliance or equivalence with Australian standards: anthrax Aujeszky’s disease brucellosis (B. abortus and B. suis) bovine tuberculosis bovine viral diarrhoea virus Cysticercus bovis echinococcosis paratuberculosis Salmonella enterica serotype Typhimurium DT104 vesicular stomatitis The department referred the above hazards to DoH and FSANZ. It was determined that Salmonella enterica serotype Typhimurium DT104 represented the hazard of most concern for human health. Preliminary analysis of the risk to human health associated with imports of beef and beef products from Japan, the Netherlands and the United States has shown that the unrestricted risk to human health of DT104 is above Australia’s ALOP and therefore needs to be managed. For this disease agent, relevant information pertaining to both the animal biosecurity risk and human biosecurity risk is summarised below to provide context for proposed risk management measures. DT104 has not been detected in Australian livestock or products derived from Australian livestock. It has never been reported in Vanuatu and is considered exotic in New Zealand. However, it is widespread in cattle populations in the United States, Japan and the Netherlands. DT104 contamination of carcases and beef products has been documented, and outbreaks of salmonellosis in humans due to DT104 have occurred due to the consumption of contaminated beef. Salmonellosis due to DT104 is not a nationally notifiable disease in Australia, nor is it an OIE disease. However, it is a serious zoonosis and the OIE recognises that multiple antibiotic resistant Salmonella spp. are of increasing concern in both public health and primary production. The likelihood of entry of DT104 with imports of beef and beef products from applicant countries where DT104 is not present in the cattle population (New Zealand and Vanuatu) is not
Wesslesbron disease No risk management was required for rinderpest as the disease was declared globally eradicated by the OIE in 2011. Additional biosecurity measures The risk assessment determined that the risk of the following disease agents with the importation of fresh beef and beef product from the applicant countries was considered negligible, provided there is compliance or equivalence with Australian standards: anthrax Aujeszky’s disease brucellosis (B. abortus and B. suis) bovine tuberculosis bovine viral diarrhoea virus Cysticercus bovis echinococcosis paratuberculosis Salmonella enterica serotype Typhimurium DT104 vesicular stomatitis The department referred the above hazards to DoH and FSANZ. It was determined that Salmonella enterica serotype Typhimurium DT104 represented the hazard of most concern for human health. Preliminary analysis of the risk to human health associated with imports of beef and beef products from Japan, the Netherlands and the United States has shown that the unrestricted risk to human health of DT104 is above Australia’s ALOP and therefore needs to be managed. For this disease agent, relevant information pertaining to both the animal biosecurity risk and human biosecurity risk is summarised below to provide context for proposed risk management measures. DT104 has not been detected in Australian livestock or products derived from Australian livestock. It has never been reported in Vanuatu and is considered exotic in New Zealand. However, it is widespread in cattle populations in the United States, Japan and the Netherlands. DT104 contamination of carcases and beef products has been documented, and outbreaks of salmonellosis in humans due to DT104 have occurred due to the consumption of contaminated beef. Salmonellosis due to DT104 is not a nationally notifiable disease in Australia, nor is it an OIE disease. However, it is a serious zoonosis and the OIE recognises that multiple antibiotic resistant Salmonella spp. are of increasing concern in both public health and primary production. The likelihood of entry of DT104 with imports of beef and beef products from applicant countries where DT104 is not present in the cattle population (New Zealand and Vanuatu) is not
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