Federal Court backs pork quarantine

AUSTRALIA - The full bench of the Federal Court has saved the federal government from serious questions about the nation's quarantine system that could have threatened Australia's international trading system.

The court upheld an appeal by the nation's quarantine service against an initial court decision which blocked imports of pig meat from countries with a disease not found in Australia.

Australian Pork Ltd had initially won the ruling over a ban being imposed earlier this year after Justice Murray Wilcox found major problems in an import risk analysis (IRA) that had cleared the way for pork imports.

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