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Andrew Hoggard: Biosecurity Minister on the trial of New Zealand's response to foot and mouth disease
Published 6 days, 3 hours ago
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New Zealand is about to test its readiness for foot and mouth disease with a farm simulation next month on a Taranaki farm.
It'll be followed by a national exercise including everything from mock on-farm detection, quarantine, and national governance decisions.
Biosecurity Minister Andrew Hoggard says it's one thing to have a plan on paper and another to actually carry it out.
He told Ryan Bridge other countries have managed to effectively contain it.
Hoggard says in Germany it was kept at a single farm and still meant exports could go ahead from the rest of the country.
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