This really makes my blood boil

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This really makes my blood boil

Post by Wolly Bugger » Tue Jul 03, 2018 3:46 pm

Most of you will have heard of the white spot disease threatening our prawns .


http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-02/w ... er/9886128


“We’ve been beating a path down to Canberra for 20 years warning them that this disease was coming,” she says bitterly.

“Asking them, begging them, to ban imported green prawns to buy us time.”

But Canberra never did.


While consignments were meant to be subject to virus testing in order to pass quarantine inspection, it gradually became apparent there were holes in the regime.

Raw prawns which were marinated or battered weren’t required to be tested. The whole apparatus relied on an overworked frontline. Inspectors weren’t given warm clothing needed to operate in a minus 30-degree freezer peeling open prawn cartons.

Most obvious of all: the government had been authorising importers to unload their containers unsupervised. It gave them days or weeks in which to fiddle with the stock before an inspector showed up.

A 2007 Queensland government survey had identified white spot in almost 90 per cent of all prawns sold in supermarkets. Nine years later, secret tests conducted by the Federal Government showed no improvement; the virus was coming in practically unchecked.


The big question is how many of the importers of contaminated prawns were paying off our major parties?

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Post by smile0784 » Tue Jul 03, 2018 4:19 pm

Thats crap the government should have done years ago

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Post by Lightningx » Tue Jul 03, 2018 5:28 pm

Ah yea that’s bad news alright :down:

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Post by Bayrock » Tue Jul 03, 2018 5:48 pm

Couldn’t get that right.. And they want to release a dangerous virus into our waterways?
Heavens help us

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Post by 4liters » Tue Jul 03, 2018 8:20 pm

now watch absolutely no heads roll over this
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Re: This really makes my blood boil

Post by Fish-cador » Wed Jul 04, 2018 3:51 pm

Chillax wolly...your pace maker may overheat. :-P

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