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7.1 discuss the role of quarantine in preventing the spread of disease, plants and animals into Australia or across regions of Australia
discuss the role of quarantine in preventing the spread of disease and plants and animals into Australia and across regions of Australia.
- Australia has generally been fortunate in preventing the spread of plant and animal disease from other parts of the world because of its geographical isolation. Quarantine seeks to prevent the entry of harmful diseases into Australia and to stop the spread of diseases within Australia.
- These diseases cause huge financial losses to farmers in other countries. Australia is able to sell its products to overseas markets because of the absence of diseases, like mad cow disease and foot-and-mouth.
- Australia also has declared fruit-fly free areas where the produce is sold with a guarantee of no fruit fly. This can be done by having inspections and bins to put fruit in when entering particular fruit growing areas.