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NEW See, Contain, Report Newsletter - July 2023

Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) have released a new edition of the See, Contain, Report Newsletter. The July 2023 Edition gives updates on various areas of the Transitional Facility Window including; The Biosecurity Business Pledge - Partnering to Protect Expiry of a TF approval Change is in the air for...

Return to Samoa | Celebrating World Chocolate Day

Today (Friday 7th July 2023) is World Chocolate Day! SPS Biota are great lovers of chocolate and are excited to share our team's most recent visit to Savai'i in Samoa to celebrate World Chocolate Day. Hear from Keith Budd and Tanner Stott who, along with Liz Budd, visited the team...

How prepared are you? | Biosecurity Response Workshop

MPI’s experiential biosecurity response workshop part of the NZPPI conference held in Auckland in May 2023. The workshop was attended by Dominic and Darryn from SPS Biota team surveillance who gave audience to the presentations and participated in the interactive workshop. Vinni Pather, a member of the MPI Biosecurity response...

NEW See, Contain, Report Newsletter - March 2023

Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) have released a new edition of the See, Contain, Report Newsletter. The March 2023 Edition gives updates on various areas of the Transitional Facility Window including; The Biosecurity Business Pledge TFGEN and TFGEN Guidance Updates Performance Based Verification (PBV) Update Accredited Persons - resetting of passwords...

Biocontrol Workshop | Waikato Biodiversity Forum

Earlier in April, a few members of our North Island team travelled to Hamilton to participate in a Biocontrol Workshop hosted by the Waikato Biodiversity Forum. Biocontrol is quite a drastic contrast to biosecurity: Biocontrol – The control of an invasive species by the introduction of a natural predator Biosecurity...

Chatham Islands Visit March 2023

Recently, a team of three SPS Biota staff made a visit to the Chatham Islands. Chatham Islands Tuuta Airport Terminal   SPS Biota works with Environment Canterbury (ECan) and the Chatham Islands Council to provide support in the Chatham Islands Border Quarantine and Biosecurity programme. The Chatham Islands are a...

NEW Container fumes online course AVAILABLE NOW!

  Container fumes are an important health and safety consideration for all staff working with imported containers. SPS Biota has created an eLearning course that will provide learners with a basic understanding of: what container fumes are how to safely manage container fumes when devanning an imported container. The course...

Updates to TFGEN and TFGEN-GD from MPI

Ministry for Primary Industries has updated the standard Transitional Facilities for General Uncleared Risk Goods (TFGEN) and the Guidance Document for this standard (TFGEN-GD). The newest versions of both documents are dated 17 March 2023. If you have a copy of these standards in your TF Manual folder, now is...

Dutch elm disease in the Waikato

Dutch elm disease (DED) is a deadly vascular wilt disease that attacks almost all elm species where it is present (Ghelardini & Santini, 2009). Trees that become infected will gradually decline, first wilting (see below photo) and subsequently losing their leaves and becoming increasingly unable to carry out their normal...