‘Most expensive Macca’s meal’ for traveller who didn’t declare McMuffins
A traveller returning from Bali is up for the “most expensive Macca’s meal” they will ever have after being pinged for undeclared meat by a detector dog in Darwin.
Detector dog Zinta last week responded to the passenger’s backpack, which contained “a variety of risk items”, including two egg and beef sausage McMuffins and a ham croissant.
The passenger has been issued with a $2664 infringement notice for failing to declare potential high biosecurity risk items and providing a false and misleading document.
Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Murray Watt said he has no sympathy for the passenger, or “people who choose to disobey Australia’s strict biosecurity measures”.
“This fine is twice the cost of an airfare to Bali,” he said. “Recent detections show you will be caught.”
Zinta was stationed at Darwin Airport as part of new biosecurity measures to prevent the spread of foot and mouth disease from Indonesia to Australia.
“It’s excellent to see she is already contributing to keeping the country safe,” Mr Watt said. “Australia is FMD-free and we want it to stay that way.”
The meat products were seized and will be tested for foot and mouth disease before they are destroyed.
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