Australia Bans Woman From Entering After Finding 5kg Raw Pork, Seafood & Eggs In Luggage

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Siti Hawa
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I get it. Travelling to a new country can be intimidating, especially if you aren’t used to their culture.

One particular gripe I have about extended holidays abroad is missing good ol’ Singaporean food. Chicken rice, laksa, chilli crab.. they’ve got all mee goreng crazy.

Get it? HAHA.

So it’s completely understandable that some people like to pack tons of Maggi Mee in their luggage like the all-time favourite:

Image: Nissin

Bringing Maggi is perfectly understandable right? Just don’t eat too much of them; watch this video and you’ll understand:

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But what if you pack 5kg of raw pork, seafood, poultry, quail… (does this list even end?) in your luggage?

Australia Bans Woman From Entering After Finding 5kg Raw Pork, Seafood & Eggs In Luggage

I’m just assuming that she packed all that food in her luggage to cook when she arrives in Australia.

I mean, unless she was planning on selling it at the local market or something.

Here’s what happened:

Australia has barred a 45-year-old Vietnamese woman for failing to declare 4.6kg of raw pork on arrival in Sydney. According to CNA, this was the first expulsion under a stricter biosecurity law.

The incident happened on Saturday. She had flown into Sydney with the pork and more than 5kg of other food, which includes quail, squid, pate, eggs and garlic in her luggage.

Image: Department Of Agriculture

Instead of giving her a hefty fine to pay, the large amount of undeclared food compelled the immigration officials to return to Vietnam.

Perhaps she was trying to cook up a storm. Geddit?

Stricter Biosecurity Regulations 

Australia is already quite strict with regards to biosecurity regulations, but they’ve since taken it a notch higher to prevent the African swine fever from impacting its A$5.4billion pork industry.

Agriculture Minister Bridget McKenzie goes so far as to call the Swine Flu “potentially the biggest animal disease event the world has seen”.

The country is well known for their tough biosecurity laws and in 2015, Australia gave Hollywood actor Johnny Depp two days to return his two pet dogs to the United States because he failed to declare them to customs.

More About The African Swine Fever

African swine fever has mortality rates as high as 100%, can be spread via raw pork. Thus far, the infection has killed a quarter of the world’s pigs since spreading to Asia from Europe about a year ago.

“There’s no vaccine … so it can wipe out the entire herd,” said the chief executive of Pork Australia, Margo Andrae.

She also added that the other raw animal products carried by the woman also posed a biosecurity risk.

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