Download Head-on, gill-in Australian salmonids for human consumption - Import risk analysis review of submissions (March 2000)

On 27 September 1999 MAF Biosecurity Authority published the Supplementary import risk analysis: Head-on, gill-in Australian salmonids for human consumption. The risk analysis was supplementary to previous analyses completed in 1994 and 1997 respectively.
The diseases identified as being of potential concern were atypical strains of Aeromonas salmonicida, lymphosarcomas in Tasmanian Atlantic salmon, streptococcosis, and epizootic haematopoetic necrosis virus (EHNV). The risk analysis assessed each of these diseases, and concluded for the first three that the risk of introduction posed by head-on, gill-in salmonids for human consumption was low or negligible. Specific measures were recommended for EHNV.
MAF received 12 submissions on the supplementary risk analysis, the content of which is summarised in this document. As a result of questions raised in submissions regarding one disease, MAF sought further expert opinion and received three further submissions, which are also summarised in this document.
MAF concludes that none of the points raised in submissions affect the validity of the conclusions in the supplementary analysis, or the risk analyses that have preceded it.