It isn’t what you’d name a contented meal.

A passenger flying into Darwin was fined $2664 after bringing in an uneaten McDonald’s meal from Bali, breaching Australia’s strict biosecurity legal guidelines.

An announcement issued by the Minister for Agriculture, Murray Watt, mentioned the passenger arrived final week carrying two egg-and-beef-sausage McMuffins and a ham croissant.

Authorities are on excessive alert for biosecurity dangers from Indonesia after an outbreak of foot and mouth illness within the nation.

The seized gadgets can be examined for the illness earlier than being destroyed.

The passenger obtained an infringement discover for failing to declare potential excessive biosecurity threat gadgets and offering a false and deceptive doc.

“This would be the costliest Maccas meal this passenger ever has, this superb is twice the price of an airfare to Bali, however I’ve no sympathy for individuals who select to disobey Australia’s strict biosecurity measures, and up to date detections present you may be caught,” Watt mentioned.

The gadgets had been sniffed out by a brand new detector canine at Darwin’s airport named Zinta.

“Zinta was positioned at Darwin Airport as a part of the Albanese Authorities’s powerful new biosecurity defences, and it is wonderful to see she is already contributing to conserving the nation protected,” Watt mentioned.

The federal authorities final month promised powerful new biosecurity measures to protect in opposition to the illness outbreak. Sanitation foot mats have been put in in any respect worldwide airports and sniffer canines assigned to Darwin and Cairns airports.

Mail arriving from Indonesia and China is now being screened for the illness.

Nevertheless, some have known as for the borders with Indonesia to be briefly closed, together with a gaggle of farmers who rallied in Colac, Victoria final week.

Foot and mouth is likely one of the world’s most infectious animal illnesses and may devastate livestock.

The UK foot and mouth illness outbreak in 2001 resulted in additional than 6 million animals being destroyed, costing an estimated 8 billion.

It isn’t the primary time not too long ago a passenger has fallen foul of Australia’s biosecurity legal guidelines after bringing in a quick meals meal bought at an airport.

Final month, Perth teenager Jessica Lee went viral on TikTok after posting a video about how she had been fined $2264 for bringing in a forgotten Subway sandwich on a flight from Singapore.

The following publicity round her story resulted in Subway sending her a voucher for $2664 price of sandwiches.

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