Sheepmeat Council of Australia - Why are prevalence areas changing?
Thursday, 23 February 2012
Why are prevalence areas changing?
Changes are the consequence of an increasing prevalence of OJD over the past two years in some regions, which has pushed these areas above their allocated prevalence area cut-off under the OJD Management Plan 2007 – 2012.


 Amendments will be made to the following OJD Prevalence Areas: 

‐ New South Wales: changes to all Medium Prevalence Area boundaries and Low Prevalence Area
boundaries (refer to the Prevalence Area Map);
‐ Victoria: the Medium Prevalence Area will become a High Prevalence Area, and the Low Prevalence
Area will change to a Medium Prevalence Area; and
‐ Western Australia: the Low Prevalence Area will become a Medium Prevalence Area.
There will be no changes to prevalence areas in Queensland, South Australia or Tasmania. However, Sheepmeat Council and WoolProducers Australia caution producers in these states not to be complacent.
 
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