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| Animal products | Meat products and products of animal origin (e.g. eggs) for human consumption or use in animal feeding. |
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| Aquatic Animal Health Committee | A committee comprising representatives of the Australian government, Australian state and territory governments, the major aquaculture, wild capture, aquarium and recreational fishing industries and a CSIRO representative. The committee provides advice to Primary Industries Ministerial Council on aquatic animal health matters, focusing on technical issues and regulatory policy. See also Primary Industries Ministerial Council |
| AQUAVETPLAN | Australian Aquatic Veterinary Emergency Plan. A series of technical response plans that describe the proposed Australian approach to an emergency aquatic animal disease incident. See also AUSVETPLAN |
| Australian Chief Veterinary Officer | The nominated senior veterinarian in the Australian Government Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry who manages international animal health commitments and the Australian Government’s response to an animal disease outbreak. See also Chief veterinary officer |
| AUSVETPLAN | Australian Veterinary Emergency Plan. A series of technical response plans that describe the proposed Australian approach to an emergency animal disease incident. The documents provide guidance ased on sound analysis, linking policy, strategies, implementation, coordination and emergency-management plans. |
| Biogas production | Decomposition of infected material by microorganisms in an anaerobic environment. |
| Carcass | The body or trunk of an aquatic animal subsequent to killing or death. |
| Chief veterinary officer(CVO) | The senior veterinarian of the animal health authority in each jurisdiction (national, state or territory) who has responsibility for animal disease control in that jurisdiction. See also Australian Chief Veterinary Officer |
| Compensation | The sum of money paid by government to an owner for stock that are destroyed and property that is compulsorily destroyed because of an emergency animal disease. |
| Composting | Decomposition of infected material by microorganisms. Suitable only where there is a small risk of fomite spread. |
| Dangerous contact premises or area | A defined area that has had a direct, and possibly infectious, contact with an infected premises/area. The type of contact will depend on the agent involved in the outbreak but, for example, may involve animal movements or net/equipment movements. |
| Declared area | A defined tract of land or water that is subjected to disease control restrictions under emergency animal disease legislation. Types of declared areas include restricted area, control area, infected premises, dangerous contact premises and suspect premises. |
| Decontamination | Includes all stages of cleaning and disinfection. |
| Destruction | The killing by humane means (euthanasia) of infected aquatic animals and/or those exposed to infection. See also stamping out. |
| Disease agent | A general term for a transmissible organism or other factor that causes an infectious disease. |
| Disinfectant | A chemical used to destroy disease agents outside a living animal. |
| Disinfection | The application, after thorough cleansing, of procedures intended to destroy the infectious or parasitic agents of animal diseases, including zoonoses; applies to premises, vehicles and other objects that may have been directly or indirectly contaminated. |
| Emergency animal disease | A disease that is (a) exotic to Australia or (b) a variant of an endemic disease or (c) a serious infectious disease of unknown or uncertain cause or (d) a severe outbreak of a known endemic disease, and that is considered to be of national significance with serious social or trade implications. See also Endemic animal disease, Exotic animal disease |
| Endemic animal disease | A disease affecting animals (which may include humans) that is known to occur in Australia. See also Emergency animal disease, Exotic animal disease |
| Ensiling | Processing by acid and heat to inactivate infectious agents. |
| Enterprise | See Risk enterprise |
| Epidemiological investigation | An investigation to identify and qualify the risk factors associated with a disease. |
| Exotic animal disease | A disease affecting animals (which may include humans) that does not normally occur in Australia. See also Emergency animal disease, Endemic animal disease |
| Fomite | Any inanimate thing (e.g. water, packing, boots, equipment) capable of spreading the disease agent. |
| Free area | An area known to be free from the disease agent. |
| High-risk material | Animal wastes that constitute or are suspected of constituting a serious health risk to animals or humans. |
| Infected premises or area | The area in which the disease has been confirmed. Definition of an ‘infected area’ is more likely to apply to an open system, such as an oceanic lease. |
| Local disease control centre | An emergency operations centre responsible for the command and control of field operations in a defined area. |
| Low-risk waste | Animal wastes that do not constitute a serious risk for the spread of disease to humans or animals. |
| Monitoring | Routine collection of data for assessing the health status of a population. See also Surveillance |
| Movement control | Restrictions placed on the movement of fish, people and other things to prevent the spread of disease. |
| OIE Aquatic Code | OIE International Aquatic Animal Health Code (OIE 2004).Published on the internet at: http://www.oie.int/eng/normes/fcode/a_index.htm (Accessed 11 May 2005).See Appendix 1 for further details |
| OIE Aquatic Manual | OIE Manual of Diagnostic Tests for Aquatic Animals (OIE 2003). Describes standards for laboratory diagnostic tests and the production and control of biological products (principally vaccines). The current edition is published on the internet at: http://www.oie.int/eng/normes/fmanual/A_summry.htm (Accessed 11 May 2005). See Appendix 1 for further details |
| Operational procedures | Detailed instructions for carrying out specific disease control activities, such as disposal, destruction, decontamination and valuation. |
| Premises or area | A production site, which may range from an aquarium to an aquaculture lease in the open ocean. |
| Primary Industries Ministerial Council | The council of Australian national, state and territory and New Zealand ministers of agriculture that sets Australian and New Zealand agricultural policy (formerly the Agriculture and Resource Management Council of Australia and New Zealand). |
| Quarantine | Legal restrictions that limit movement, imposed on a place, animals, vehicles, or other things. |
| Rendering | Processing by heat to inactivate infective agents. Rendered material may be used in various products according to particular disease circumstances. |
| Restricted area | The area around an infected premises (or area), likely to be subject to intense surveillance and movement controls. It is likely to be relatively small. It may include some dangerous contact premises (or area) and some suspect premises (or area), as well as enterprises that are not infected or under suspicion. Movement of potential vectors of disease out of the area will, in general, be prohibited. Movement into the restricted area would only be by permit. Multiple restricted areas may exist within one control area. |
| Risk enterprise | A defined livestock or related enterprise, which is potentially a major source of infection for many other premises. Includes hatcheries, aquaculture farms, processing plants, packing sheds, fish markets, tourist angling premises, veterinary laboratories, road and rail freight depots and garbage depots. |
| Stamping out | Eradication procedures based on quarantine and destruction of all infected animals and animals exposed to infection. |
| State or territory disease control headquarters | The emergency operations centre that directs the disease control operations to be undertaken in that state or territory. |
| Surveillance | A systematic series of investigations of a given population of fish to detect the occurrence of disease for control purposes, and which may involve testing samples of a population. |
| Susceptible animal | Animal that can be infected with a particular disease. |
| Tracing | The process of locating animals, persons or other items that may be implicated in the spread of disease, so that appropriate action can be taken. |
| Transport | The biosecure removal of aquatic animals, aquatic animal carcasses or parts of aquatic animals from the infected aquaculture establishment to the site of disposal. |
| Vector | A living organism that transmits an infectious agent from one host to another. A biological vector is one in which the infectious agent must develop or multiply before becoming infective to a recipient host. A mechanical vector is one that transmits an infectious agent from one host to another but is not essential to the life cycle of the agent. |
| Zoning | The process of defining disease-free and infected areas. |
| Zoonosis or zoonotic disease | Disease transmissible from animals to humans. |
Last reviewed:
10 Nov 2009
10 Nov 2009