Has the Australian Quarantine Inspection Service (AQIS) managed to pull the wool over the eyes of Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries Minister, Warren Truss, and Cabinet in recommending that apples from fire blight affected New Zealand be allowed into Australia?The AQIS Import Risk Analysis (IRA) report came to the conclusion that, if New Zealand apples were permitted into Australia, the* probability of fire blight entering Australia was “high”;* probability of establishment if the disease entere…
