Pork products that were for sale in the Melbourne CBD were also found during routine inspections to contain viral fragments of both foot and mouth disease and African swine fever – another livestock disease that has not previously circulated among animals in Australia.
“We have detected foot and mouth disease and African swine fever viral fragments in a small number of pork products for sale in the Melbourne CBD that were imported from China,” Watt said on Wednesday.
“Several other pork products for retail sale have tested positive for African swine fever viral fragments.
“I’m advised that all products now of this kind have been seized from all linked supermarkets and a warehouse in Melbourne as well.
“In addition to this, a passenger travelling from Indonesia has in recent days been intercepted with a beef product
Minister Watt’s office said viral fragments are not live and cannot be transmitted.
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