Legal Action by Australian Pork Producers Against Director of Australian Quarantine

Australian Pork Limited has been involved in an ongoing Federal Court battle to reverse the determination of the Director of Animal and Plant Quarantine to issue an import permit for pig meat to be imported from the United States. On 30 July 2004, an officer of the Director of Animal and Plant Quarantine granted a permit which would allow the import of pig meat from the United States for a period of two years from that date. Australian legislation requires the Director to consider the “level of quarantine risk” and the permit was issued in this case after a panel of scientific experts made an Import Risk Assessment Analysis in relation to a number of diseases found in pigs, one of which was post-weaning multisystemic wasting syndrome (PMWS).

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