Should be turned around and told to F$#@ Off!

[Dtwo 157]

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-advocate/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503450&objectid=11599205

 

[Clipper 343]

Agreed

[Black Panther 1,587]

Yep, the Aussies have been known to get pretty tense if a boat turns up at their place with fresh stuff on board.

[Kevin McCready 83]

What's the name of Dianne Young's boat? Where is it?

 

The court was told Dianne Margaret Joy Young, 64, stashed eggs, oranges, apples, tomatoes, pumpkin, pineapple, onions, kumara, ginger, garlic, spring onions, meat patties, ham, eggplant, bok choy, cabbage, cucumber, capsicum and lettuce around her vessel. When she sailed into Opua from Fiji last November her boat was subjected to a routine search by an MPI quarantine officer. The officer found fresh food hidden in compartments around the vessel.

The Australian resident pleaded guilty.

 

FFS why do inSensible Sentencing Trust get to comment????

[wheels 543]

I think she got off too lightly. There are 20 different types of food in the Pic. She should have been fined the 200 or 300 dollars normal border control fines are for, for each group. $10K would be a better fine for such blatant disregard for biosecurity.

[smithy09 50]

I think she got off too lightly. There are 20 different types of food in the Pic. She should have been fined the 200 or 300 dollars normal border control fines are for, for each group. $10K would be a better fine for such blatant disregard for biosecurity.

Agreed Wheels. What a shocker. Being Aussie she would know all about the risks as well...

[harrytom 643]

and did they inspect hull for fan worm??

[DrWatson 375]

In the article there is reference to a French Sailor who also failed to declare goods.

I'm interested to see that cooked preserved meat products are also mentioned.

 

Does anyone know what meat products are allowed to be imported? 

[erice 732]

not 100% sure

 

but 'factory" foods seem to be allowed

 

where home preserved foods are not

 

so if that "cooked preserved meat"

 

had been home-made freeze-dried, canned, vac-bagged, beef stew 

 

it wouldn't have passed as the kitchen preparation would not have been certified 

[darkside 61]

It has been a while now but we had UHT milk seized.

Not sure what bugs that are a risk can survive UHT.

What's more it was NZ sourced milk, packaged with pride in East Tamaki.

[harrytom 643]

very simple rules around what is/not allowed,declare it regardless,let mpi take it away for free.Hide it bad luck pay the fine.

 

if nz is serious about biosecurity,every container/car would be fumigated. We have a transitional facility at work and yes containers have been opened and bugs crawled out,doors shut and await mpi,meantime the bugs that have escaped have gone where??

 

brought a tent back from aussie went to fumigators and we got it back 2 weeks later,put it up in backyard and watched the bush cockroaches scatter.paid $200 for what?