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Mango deodorant, deer whip and stewed dog - a different look at quarantine
AQIS20138
3 May 2001
Over the past year, AQIS staff has learned a lot about innovations in ‘cuisine’, love potions and personal hygiene — to name a few. Throughout Australia’s international airports, travellers continue to test the boundaries...
Recently seized culinary delights include:
- vacuum packed possum;
- ‘bush meat’ containing cuts of rock-hard dried paws, shoulders and heads of several large rodents, a small armadillo and a small monitor lizard;
- cow lung, cooked and battered in cheese;
- four kilos of cooked horse meat;
- homemade Giant African snail curry; and
- AQIS detector dog ‘Jackson’ recently discovered a passenger concealing a fellow canine — stewed in turtle juice — for human consumption. This undeclared meal’s packaging read: On smelling the scent of the dog meat boiled in pot, it is hard even for a celestial being to calm down. The scent of the dog meat will send a spirit jumping over the wall.
From a bed-slouch:
- Two packets of ‘deer whip’, designed for ‘…nourishing the kidney and curing the lack of vital energy’, were recently declared to Sydney’s quarantine team. Although the deer whips were seized by quarantine (along with 400 grams of deer horn) the packaging provided additional information on its usage and dosage: It has important curative effects for many diseases such as kidney’s weakness, sexual nerve’s feebleness, emission, involuntary emission, impotence … tinnitus, uterus’s cold and unfruitfulness. Stew the soup … or make wine etc. Each time you can use 5-15 g.
Mango deodorant:
- Detector dog ‘Blue’ recently alerted to a female passenger who, although repeatedly denied that she was carrying any prohibited items, could not dissuade the nose that knows. Together with his handler, Blue’s persistence wore down the passenger’s son who dobbed in his mum for concealing 10 egg-sized mangoes. Finally, Ms Mango was forced to concede defeat and hand over the goods — removing them, one by one, from beneath her armpits.
Welcome to the world of Quarantine.
Declare anything made from plants or animals, including wooden articles, dairy products, meat products, fresh fruit, seeds and nuts, as well as live animals.
National Quarantine Week, 30 April - 6 May
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