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The Government has made considerable progress towards sorting out the highly complex legal issues surrounding the use of rabbit calicivirus (RCD) in New Zealand, the Minister for Biosecurity, Hon S

  • Simon Upton
  • Biosecurity

The Government is spending a total of nearly half a million dollars for research, surveillance and distribution of information related to rabbit

  • Simon Upton
  • Biosecurity

New Zealand's tourism industry is most at risk from the economic threat posed by the potential introduction of new species of disease carrying mosquitoes according to a recent report, Minister for

  • Simon Upton
  • Biosecurity

Regulations which make it lawful
to possess and spread material containing rabbit calicivirus disease (RCD) are

  • Simon Upton
  • Biosecurity

The Minister for Biosecurity, Hon.

  • Simon Upton
  • Biosecurity

Biosecurity Minister Simon Upton has moved to clarify the purpose behind the containment measures MAF is deploying in RCD affected areas of the South Island.

  • Simon Upton
  • Biosecurity

Any attempt by farmers to take matters into their own hands and smuggle RCD into the country would be a terrible mistake, the Minister for Biosecurity, Hon Simon Upton said today.

  • Simon Upton
  • Biosecurity

``Far from being remotely sensitive about the discovery of fire blight, Australian authorities should be grateful that a keen eyed New Zealand scientist was about and able to bring the disease to t

  • Simon Upton
  • Biosecurity

``Reports this morning that an independent review panel has found that the campaign to rid Auckland eastern suburbs of the white spotted tussock moth was `doomed to failure' from the start, are qui

  • Simon Upton
  • Biosecurity

The Biosecurity Council has held its first meeting this afternoon. One of its immediate tasks will be to consider the recommendations of the Report of the White Spotted Tussock Moth Review Panel.

  • Simon Upton
  • Biosecurity

The new Biosecurity Council, meeting for the first time today, will provide a much clearer focus for guarding New Zealand's biosecurity, according to Simon Upton, the new Minister for Biosecurity.

  • Simon Upton
  • Biosecurity