Foot-and-mouth disease: airports to step up precautions as FMD fragments found in meat products in Australia

Agriculture minister says disinfectant mats will be installed to prevent arrival of the disease, which is spreading in Indonesia

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The federal government will install acidic disinfectant mats at airports as part of an expanded suite of biosecurity measures to prevent foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) entering Australia from Indonesia.

The new precautions come as viral fragments of the disease were detected in food products arriving from China.