A Darwin traveller has been fined thousands of dollars for not declaring fast food from Bali, as concerns grow about foot-and-mouth disease.
A traveller from Indonesia has been fined thousands of dollars for sneaking two beef sausage McMuffins and a ham croissant into Australia.The fast food snacks were seized and will be tested for the diseasePassengers returning from Indonesia have been facing tougher biosecurity checks,The highly contagious disease, which is yet to reach Australia, affects cattle, sheep, goats, and pigs, and the virus would have severe consequences for the nation's animal health and trade.
A biosecurity detector dog at Darwin airport sniffed out the fast food meat products in a passenger's backpack last week, with the traveller fined $2,664. The pork and beef snacks were seized and will be tested for foot-and-mouth disease, before being destroyed. An outbreak of the disease in Indonesia has prompted Australian biosecurity officials to categorise some meat products as "risk items".
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