biosecurity
The comparison of quarantine risk analysis systems project will initially gather and collate information from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Japan, USA, UK, Chile and Thailand. This helps develop a methodology to analyse the biosecurity risks more effectively, and provide a higher level of confidence to Australia's quarantine risk assessment system.
What is the biosecurity problem?
Currently there is no information on how efficient the Australian import risk assessment system is compared to other risk assessments conducted around the world. Biosecurity Australia needs to know more on this to put confidence in its system. The current system depends on Expert opinion and statistical theory. While this may be best available system to categorise risk, it is well known that opinion is susceptible to bias and possibly misleading prioritisation.
The main outputs of this project are to:
- evaluate the information needed to provide a comprehensive qualitative and subsequent quantitative review of quarantine risk assessment systems
- evaluate and compare qualitatively the different quarantine risk assessment systems
- evaluate how different risk analysis approaches deal with uncertainty, and
- develop standardised measures of effectiveness for these systems, including quantitative assessment.
Who will be the end-users of this research?
The project will deliver directly to Biosecurity Australia. More broadly, the techniques developed in this project may be usable by different areas of the risk analysis community, both within Australia and internationally.
PROJECT LEADER
Prof Kerrie Mengersen
Project Leader CRC10068: Comparison of Quarantine Risk Analysis Systems
k.mengersen@qut.edu.au
Phone: 07 3138 2063
Fax: 07 3138 2310
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PROJECT DETAILS
Active
Term
October 2007 – September 2009
Budget
$625,196 (cash and in-kind contributions)
PROGRAM DETAILS
LOCATION
CORE CRC PARTICIPANTS
INDUSTRY RELATED
Outcome
Education and training: Increased awareness, knowledge and skills levels of industry personnel, and supply of trained scientists.
Goal
The awareness, knowledge and skill of industry personnel, and supply of trained scientists involved in the supply chain and import/export pathways will be enhanced through education and training.
Indicators of success
Capacity:
New postgraduate scientists are supplied to the plant biosecurity community.
Short courses and workshops are delivered to plant biosecurity research staff and students and industry professionals.
Establishment of new university courses in plant biosecurity.
Education And Training Research Projects
Title | Leader |
CRC60047 - T: A National Postgraduate Curriculum for Plant Biosecurity | Dr Anthony Clarke |
The traditional research disciplines underpinning plant biosecurity are the plant protection fields of entomology and plant pathology. However, plant biosecurity is more than just pathology and more | |
CRC60125: Grain Storage and Biosecurity Training | |
Stored grain is subject to major biosecurity problems which have the potential to significantly reduce the quality of the stored grain and to make it unsuitable for both domestic and international more |
PROGRAM LEADER
Dr Kirsty Bayliss
Program Leader Education and Training
Email: k.bayliss@crcplantbiosecurity.com.au
Phone: 08 9360 2814
Fax: 08 9360 6303
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STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE
To undertake training of Honours and PhD candidates in plant biosecurity, to provide workshops and courses for people working in industry and the government sector, and to provide opportunities for research staff and students to enhance skills, develop industry awareness, and ensure that Australia has the highest quality plant biosecurity research community.
Outcome
Post-harvest grain biosecurity.
Goal
Maximise the value, integrity, and competitive advantage of Australia’s post-harvest supply chain.
Indicators of success
Economic:
Strategy for extending the useful life of phosphine to support market access outcomes for Australian grains.
Science:
New knowledge underpinning strategies to manage phosphine resistance is accepted by peers through publication.
Policy:
Standardised detection and measurement of resistance to phosphine is accepted by end-users.
Capacity/Collaboration:
Improved phosphine resistance management practice both on-farm and in all sectors of the post-harvest grains supply chain.
Impact/Adoption:
New tools to optimise chemical applications in grain storage are adopted by end users.
Post-Harvest Integrity Research Projects
Title | Leader |
CRC50059: Fumigation Technology | Mr James Darby |
This project investigated options to overcome the cause of deficient fumigation, sustain the life of phosphine and enable the effective application of new fumigants. It will develop an integrated more | |
CRC50060: Cool Grain Fumigation | Dr Greg Daglish |
Increasing applications of phosphine to stored grain in silos that leak, or grain stored under the wrong conditions, has caused problems with insect pests building up resistance. Proof is needed more | |
CRC50089: Grain Insect Ecology | Dr Greg Daglish |
Resistance to phosphine in target pests threatens market access for Australian grain. While the grains industry is now attempting to develop an effective and sustainable strategy to manage this more | |
CRC50091: Ensuring Effective Phosphine Application | Mr Greg Hopkins |
The aim of this project is to experimentally determine and mathematically model the movement of phosphine fumigant in large grain storages and its associated efficacy. This information will then more | |
CRC50092: Alternatives to phosphine review | Dr Patrick Collins |
This review will provide the CRCNPB with a basis for strategic investment into the technologies that have the potential to be developed into effective insect control systems compatible with grain more | |
CRC50098: Fumigation Protocols for Flat Grain Beetles | Dr Manoj Nayak |
Flat grain beetle (FGB) is a major emergency plant pest (EPP) of stored grain in Australia. Populations of FGB have recently developed high level resistance to phosphine (the only viable fumigant more | |
CRC50116: Resistance Monitoring | Dr Manoj Nayak |
A range of naturalised harmful plant storage pests including beetles, psocids, moths and mites habitually threaten the food safety, market access, trade and the overall profitability and more | |
CRC50147: Low oxygen technology for alternative to phosphine | Dr YongLin Ren |
This project aimed to develop cost-effective, readily adoptable alternatives to a phosphine fumigant that will control resistant insects and comply with industry and market more | |
CRC50150: Targeting mechanisms of phosphine resistance in stored grain pests | Dr David Schlipalius |
Media Release: 8 August 2005 |