SURVEILLANCE PROGRAMS FOR FOOD IMPORTS

Importing food into Australia is a contentious issue about which many an eyebrow is raised. Australia is often characterised as a land of plenty, with diverse climate, a clean environment, physically separated from ecological disasters such as Chernobyl, and able to produce almost every type of food. Why, then, is food imported into Australia? In hard economic times with notorious trade balance problems, the question takes on a harder edge.