Which countries deemed low risk with Aus quarantine letting you through without XRAY?

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RTWFF said:
I think there may be another factor involved. I always arrive and depart using my APEC BTC. The only time I have ever been x-rayed on arrival (Sydney) is when I flew in from Bangkok. I did ask and the (friendly) reply was "we always x-ray from Thailand".

I've been bypassed for x-ray when arriving from BKK before, and waved straight out to the exit. It depends on a lot of factors.
 
And yet, I have been subject to the entire drill when arriving at MEL INT on a BP carrying a D sticker - go figure, no rhyme or reason to the whole thing.....

Dave
 
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clifford said:
Not sure if the XRay would detect bird flu.
but it will detect organic content, which would trigger a manual search and then any poultry product can be inspected by the AQIS agent.
 
Hi all

Last trip from BKK via SIN back to Perth (sunday morning with a few flights arriving around the same time) with 4 pcs of luggages plus 2 big boxes of merchandise of wooden items, pet accessories & gifts etc didnt get the X-ray check and the 'friendly' custom girl only opened the one box of the two and had a look over the top layers of goods as I told her she was welcome to inspect everything and i was prepared to open all individual wrapping of each item for her inspection.........she just repack the one box and let us thru without even a blink of the other luggages........:D

Slightly out of topic here: if anyone wishes to discuss the "letters" they write on the arrival card............I had a custom mate who told me (whether its true or not) that they have a few letters word made for the shift of the day for all incoming pax eg "music" so if you are a person of interest to them for whatever reason....on your arrival card they put either 'm' 'u' 's' 'i' or 'c' along with the usual few standard letters ('x' for x-ray or 'q' for quarantine) depiting the level/degree of inspection etc etc.

Anyone who can shed some lights to this comment?

Thanks
Kito
 
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NM said:
but it will detect organic content, which would trigger a manual search and then any poultry product can be inspected by the AQIS agent.

isn't bird flu a virus? i am not sure how x-ray could detect an airborne virus?
 
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one9 said:
isn't bird flu a virus? i am not sure how x-ray could detect an airborne virus?
I think there should have been one of these :p or one of these :mrgreen: attached to the end of NM's post. :shock: :rolleyes:
 
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one9 said:
isn't bird flu a virus? i am not sure how x-ray could detect an airborne virus?
Sounds like you didn't read my post. Here again is what I posted:
NM said:
but it will detect organic content, which would trigger a manual search and then any poultry product can be inspected by the AQIS agent.
I don't believe I ever implied the virus is detected by the x-ray. Its the organic content of the x-rayed luggage that is detected, and ANY bird product or organic content that is considered a risk for carrying bird flu will be confiscated and destroyed by AQIS.

Bird flu transfer may well be airborne (I am no virologist), but AQIS certainly believe that importing certain products has an unacceptable risk of carrying bird flu and other dangerous diseases into the country (such as foot&mouth etc). The x-ray process does not determine if a product contain the virus. It is used to determine that the bag contains something with organic content and then it is inspected to see if it is a high-risk product and if so it is seized and destroyed - whether or not it is actually carrying the disease.
 
Organic matter such as Eggs, Stuffed pigeons etc. There is some chance they may contain said viruses.
 
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serfty said:
Organic matter such as Eggs, Stuffed pigeons etc. There is some chance they may contain said viruses.

Does tea show up on x-ray? Or is it too dried out? I have had a pack of tea a couple of times and forgotten about it and it hasn't been picked up on x-ray.
 
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one9 said:
Does tea show up on x-ray?
I have had tea bags left over in my suitcase for the last 8 or 9 overseas trips. So even if it shows up it must not be that important to them.

I remember a few years ago my mum brought dried chamomile back from overseas and not a word was said even though it was declared on customs declaration.
 
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Biscuits definitely get picked up.
Got a serious lecture for the two shortbread I had dropped in my bag from BA Terraces on my last trip from LHR
 
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I find that I usually escape hassle of X-ray and most of the time am simply waved away if I use the chocolate bar trick (often bought on the way to the gate at Changi, where they conveniently sell candy right below the SATS/SKL lounges in T2) when flying in from Singapore on SQ. This is especially for the last SQ daily to MEL which attracts a lot of connecting traffic from China and as a consequence there'll be people trying to get away with not declaring practically a fridgeload of food items. I guess they can't be bothered with me when i tell them I only have a chocolate bar....:D
 
JohnK said:
I have had tea bags left over in my suitcase for the last 8 or 9 overseas trips. So even if it shows up it must not be that important to them.

I remember a few years ago my mum brought dried chamomile back from overseas and not a word was said even though it was declared on customs declaration.

I always declare my tea - mind you I normally have 4-5 boxes of PG Tips (7 years I have been here and I still can't drink the local tea) and last time I came through I was directed for screening (manual search) and skipped the xray and even skipped the manual search :D

I was coming from HKG but spent most time in US - so maybe country specific.

The inbound customs is a shambles though - no-one knows where to queue (well maybe AFFers might ;)) and the queues are huge.
 
That's in SYD; for the A/B pier there's the one exit queue and an Agent directs you where to go from there. While it looks shambolic there is a system.

In MEL, there' the one exit as well; however the agents direct incoming PAX to lanes numbered 1 to 5. 5 is good as xrayed (sometimes) and out the door :cool: ; 1 is not so good as it leads to "Secondary" inspection. :shock:
 
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