Biosecurity import risk analysis

Risk analysis in the development of biosecurity programmes 325 Table 12.1 Types of import risk analysis for aquatic animal health... 

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Disease surveillance is required to generate evidence that the country (or zone or compartment) has been able to maintain disease freedom. Appropriate biosecurity measures to maintain disease freedom need to be applied at the same level as the surveillance system. Under international agreements, disease freedom allows countries to restrict the introduction of animals (and products not considered safe) from areas of a lower disease status. A country may consider restrictions of trade not explicitly allowed for under international agreement, for instance, in the case where a proposed import of an aquatic animal product presents an unacceptable disease risk. In these circumstances, risk analysis has a clearly defined role within... 

Thus, international recognition of disease freedom has a role to play in facilitating safe trade, at international, regional and national levels. Furthermore, risk analysis has a more general role, outside the narrow confines of international trade agreements, in designing biosecurity tailored to the most important routes of disease introduction and surveillance systems for detecting any exotic disease incursion. 

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