MPI’s latest annual compliance survey shows that 98.7 percent of international air passengers are free of biosecurity risk items by the time they leave the airport.

The survey also shows:

• 99.5 percent of passengers meet requirements regarding medium and high-risk goods by the time they leave the airport
• 99.9 percent of passengers comply with biosecurity requirements associated with goods that could host fruit flies.

The successful results are largely due to the introduction of a much stricter auditing regime in 2012 (when the compliance result was 95.3 percent). This includes the adoption of improved x-ray technology and increased numbers of detector dogs and quarantine staff.