Quarantine officials are warning that inexperienced travellers are putting Western Australia's $8 billion agriculture industry at risk with tonnes of potentially destructive organic produce being seized at borders, and more detected every year.Fresh fruit and vegetables are banned from being brought across the WA border, with some exceptions
As winter temperatures drive travellers further north, quarantine officers expect a spike in seizures Quarantine officer Malcolm Harbor, responsible for ensuring anything that poses a bio-risk to the state is detected and destroyed, said the biggest culprits are novice travellers who seem ignorant of WA's strict biosecurity regulations.
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