Acronyms
A – C
AAA – Australian Alpaca Association Inc.
AAHC – Australian Animal Health Council
AAHL – Australian Animal Health Laboratory, CSIRO
AAPSP – Australian Animal Pathology Standards Program
AAVet – Australian Government Accredited Veterinarian
AAWS – Australian Animal Welfare Strategy
ABARES – Australian Bureau of Agriculture and Resource Economics and Sciences
ABC Scheme – Assurance Based Credit Scheme
ABLV – Australian bat lyssavirus
ABS – Australian Bureau of Statistics
ACIAR – Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research
ACMF – Australian Chicken Meat Federation Inc.
ACVO – Australian Chief Veterinary Officer
ADF – Australian Dairy Farmers Ltd.
ADMA – Australian Duck Meat Association Ltd
AECL – Australian Egg Corporation Ltd.
AGID – Agar Gel Immuno-Diffusion Test
AGM – Annual General Meeting
AHA – Animal Health Australia
AHC – Animal Health Committee
AHiA – Animal Health in Australia (report)
AHIC – Australian Horse Industry Council Inc.
AHSQ – Animal Health Surveillance Quarterly
AI – Avian influenza
AIIMS – Australian Inter-service Incident Management System
ALEC – Australian Live Exporters Corporation
ALFA – Australian Lot Feeders’ Association
AMIC – Australian Meat Industry Council
AMPC – Australian Meat Processors’ Corporation
AMR – Antimicrobial resistance
ANQAP – Australian National Quality Assurance Program
ANZSDP – Australian New Zealand Standard Diagnostic Procedure
APAV – Accreditation Program for Australian Veterinarians
APL – Australian Pork Ltd.
APIQ – Australian Pork Industry Quality Assurance Program
APVMA – Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority
AQUAPLAN – Australia’s National Strategic Plan for Aquatic Animal Health
ARA – Australian Renderers’ Association
ARB – Australian Racing Board Ltd.
ARFB – Australian Ruminant Feed Ban
ASIC – Australian Securities and Investment Commission
ATO – Australian Taxation Office
AUSVETPLAN – Australian Veterinary Emergency Plan
AVA – Australian Veterinary Association
AVR – Australian Veterinary Reserve
AWI – Australian Wool Innovation
BIMS – Biosecurity Incident Management System (published Oct 2012)
BIP – Biological Imports Program
BJD – Bovine Johne’s disease
BSE – Bovine spongiform encephalopathy
BVD – By-product Vendor Declaration
CCA – Cattle Council of Australia Inc.
CCEAD – Consultative Committee on Emergency Animal Diseases
CDCF – Cattle Disease Contingency Fund Trust
CDNA – Communicable Diseases Network Australia (www.health.gov.au/cdna)
CEO – Chief Executive Officer
CIE – Centre for International Economics (www.thecie.com.au/ )
CJD – Creutzfeldt Jakob disease
CNS – Central nervous system
CRC – Co-operative Research Centre
CSIRO – Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
CVD – Commodity Vendor Declaration
CVO – Chief Veterinary Officer
D – F
DA – Dairy Australia
DAWR – Australian Government Department of Agriculture and Water Resources
DAFWA – Department Agriculture & Food, Western Australia
DEDJTR – Department of Economic Development, Jobs, Transport & Resources
DNA – Deoxyribonucleic Acid
DPIPWE – Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment (Tasmania)
DVO – District Veterinary Officer
EAD – Emergency Animal Disease
EADRA – Government and Livestock Industry Cost Sharing Deed in respect of emergency animal diseases (Emergency Animal Disease Response Agreement)
EADRP – Emergency Animal Disease Response Plan
ELISA – Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay
EU – European Union
EC – European Commission
FAO – Food & Agriculture Organisation
FCP – Forward Command Post
FMD – Foot-and-mouth disease
FNF – Financial & Non-Financial Assistance Package
FRDC – Fisheries Research and Development Corporation
FSANZ – Food Standards Australia New Zealand
FTE – Full time equivalent
FVO – Field Veterinary Officer
FVO – Food & Veterinary Office- part of EU
G – I
GBR – Geographical BSE risk
GICA – Goat Industry Council of Australia Inc.
GMP – Good manufacturing practice
GST – Goods and services tax
GVP – Gross Value of Production
HRA – Harness Racing Australia
HPAI – Highly pathogenic avian influenza
IGAB – Intergovernmental Agreement on Biosecurity
IAQSS – Imported Animal Quarantine and Surveillance Scheme
IT – Information technology
J – L
JD – Johne’s disease
JDMAP – Johne’s disease Market Assurance Program
JETACAR – Joint Expert Technical Advisory Committee on Antibiotic Resistance
LBN – Livestock Biosecurity Network
LDC – Last Dangerous Contact
LCC – Local Control Centre
LEADDR – Laboratories for Emergency Animal Disease Diagnosis and Response
LITTIT – Livestock Tracing & Implementation Taskforce
LLS – Local Land Service
LPA – Livestock Production Assurance
M – O
M ptb – Mycobacterium Para tuberculosis
MAP – Market Assurance Program (Australian Johne’s Disease)
MAP RG – Market Assurance Program Reference Group
MBM – Meat and bone meal
MDC – MLA Donor Company
MLA – Meat & Livestock Australia
MN – Monitored Negative flock/herd/property
MN1,2,3 – Monitored Negative in a numbered series
MOU – Memorandum of Understanding
NA – Not assessed herd/flock/property
NABRDES – National Animal Biosecurity RD&E Strategy
NAHIS – National Animal Health Information System
NAHLS – National Animal Health Laboratory Strategy
NAHTSC – National Animal Health Training Steering Committee
NAMP – National Arbovirus Monitoring Program
NAQS – Northern Australian Quarantine Strategy
NBC – National Biosecurity Committee
NBJDSC – National BJD Steering Committee
NBJDSP – National BJD Strategic Plan
NCG – National Consultative Group
ND – Newcastle disease
NFAS – National Feedlot Accreditation Scheme
NGO – Non-government organisation
NGSP – National Granuloma Submission Program
NGV – Non-government vets
NJDCP – National Johne’s Disease Control Program
NLIS – National Livestock Identification System
NMG – National Management Group
NRS – National Residue Survey
NT – Northern Territory
NTC – National Technical Committee
NTSESP – National Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies Surveillance Program
NVD – National Vendor Declaration
OIE – World Organisation for Animal Health
P – R
PC – Physical Containment (Laboratory levels e.g. 2,3 and 4)
PCR – Polymerase Chain Reaction
PFC – Pooled Faecal Culture
PHA – Plant Health Australia
PIC – Property Identification Code
PIRSA – Primary Industries and Resources SA
PMWS – Post-weaning Multi-systemic Wasting Syndrome
PrP – Prion protein
QA – Quality Assurance
QDAF – Queensland Department of Agriculture and Forestry – the Queensland government agency responsible for livestock health and welfare.
R&D – Research and development
R&I – Research and innovation
RA – Restricted area
RAM – Restricted Animal Material
REA – Restriction Endonuclease Analysis
RFB – Ruminant Feed Ban
RIRDC – Rural Industry Research Development corporation
RRT – Rapid Response Team
RTO – Registered training organisation
S – U
SAF – Scrapie associated fibrils
SARS – Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
SCA – Sheepmeat Council of Australia
SCC – State Coordination Centre. The emergency operations centre that directs the disease control operations to be undertaken in that state or territory.
SDRs – Standard Definition & Rules
SFMCA – Stock Feed Manufacturers’ Council of Australia
SGM – Special General Meeting
SIT – Sterile insect technology
SMEAC – standard briefing format used in the military, by emergency services organisations and frequently used during EAD responses.
- Situation – as it is at that time (what has happened, what has been done)
- Mission – objectives as appropriate for the level of briefing
- Execution – how the objectives are to be achieved (who goes where and does what)
- Administration and logistics – the support actions to the execution
- Command and communications – who is in charge where and the communication links
SOP – Standard Operating Procedure
SPF – Specific Pathogen Free
SPS – Sanitary Phytosanitary
SFMCA – Stock Feed Manufacturers Council of Australia
SVO – Senior Veterinary Officer
SWF – Screw-worm fly
TB – Tuberculosis bacillus
TFAP – Tuberculosis Freedom Assurance Program
TFAP2 – Tuberculosis Freedom Assurance Program 2
TMS – Tested to MAP Standard
TOR – Terms of reference
TRG – Technical Review Group (AUSVETPLAN)
TSE – Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy
TSEFAP – Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies Freedom Assurance Program
TWG – Technical Working Group
USDA – United States Department of Agriculture
V – Z
vCJD – variant Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease
VEAG – (FMD) Vaccine Expert Advisory Group
WEIT – Wildlife Emergency Investigation Team
WHA – Wildlife Health Australia
WHO – World Health Organisation
WPA – WoolProducers Australia
WSPA – World Society for the Protection of Animals