Download Llamas (Lama glama) and alpacas (Vicugna pacos) from specified countries - Final import risk analysis (December 2010)

This risk analysis examines the risks involved with the importation of llamas (Lama glama) and alpacas (Vicugna pacos) from Australia, USA, Canada, the European Union and South America.

An extensive hazard list of organisms of potential concern that could be associated with camelids has been collated. Preliminary hazards are identified as those that have meet specified criteria. Mycobacterium bovis is the only endemic organism retained as a preliminary hazard since it is the subject of an official control programme under the Biosecurity Act 1993.

Thirty three individual organisms or groups of organisms were identified as preliminary hazards from the organisms of potential concern listed. As a result of the individual risk assessments, 20 of these preliminary hazards were assessed to be risks in the commodity and for each of these risk management measures are presented: bovine viral diarrhoea virus type 2, bovine herpesvirus type 1, equine herpesvirus type 1, foot and mouth disease virus, rabies virus, vesicular stomatitis virus, Bacillus anthracis, Brucella spp., Chlamydophila abortus, Coxiella burnetii, Leptospira serovars, Mycobacterium bovis, Mycoplasma haemolamae, Salmonella spp., Trypanosoma spp., Echinococcus granulosus, other internal parasites (trematodes and nematodes), external parasites (mites, fleas, lice and ticks), screwworm and other myiasis infestations, and hitch-hiker weeds and seeds.