Quarantine Glasshouse Facility
Eurofins Agroscience Services offers state-of-the-art post entry quarantine facilities
Equipped with the latest environmental monitoring and control features and having a low environmental footprint, being largely powered by solar energy and having its own, on site, waste treatment plant, our specialised quarantine facility in Queensland, Australia excels at growing all crops efficiently year round. With 300 m² of bench space it has the capacity to house hundreds of thousands of plants at a time.
The facility enables the passing of post entry quarantine periods imposed by import permits and caters for high risk seed lines of summer and winter cereals and pulses, oilseeds, forage and pastures, as well as all medium risk live nursery stock imports including un-rooted, rooted and tissue culture plant material.
Our quarantine glasshouse is regularly inspected by independent pathologists and biosecurity officers to enable the completion of mandatory crop health inspections required by import permit conditions. The facility is approved arrangement accredited to class 6.1 for all live, medium risk, nursery stock and high risk seed lines plus PC2 accredited catering for importation of genetically modified material.
Eurofins quarantine services include:
- Documentation for importation and movement of material – this includes import permits and plant health certificates.
- Quarantine grow-out of seed and live plant material to pass post entry quarantine periods required by import permit conditions.
- Crop health inspections to pass mandatory import permit conditions.
- Plant breeding activities such as cross pollination and vernalisation in quarantine.
- Trait testing such as screening trials, bioassays and tissue testing in quarantine.
- Expert plant husbandry care.
For further information, please contact us
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