Silly sausage: traveller returning from Bali fined at Darwin airport after dog sniffs out McDonald’s breakfast in backpack

Zinta the black labrador's nose didn't let her down as Australia beefs up airport biosecurity after Indonesian foot-and-mouth disease outbreak

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Zinta was new on the job as a biosecurity detector dog and may have felt the weight of Australia's $80bn agriculture industry on her sleek black shoulders, or rather, her keen wet nose.

That nose managed to sniff out what would become a passenger's most expensive McDonald's breakfast, two egg and beef sausage McMuffins and a ham croissant bought in Bali and brought in a backpack into Australia.

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