March 2002
Flumethrin is a  banned substance as far as Australia's beef export market to the US is concerned. The substance is the active ingredient in Bayticol, the only tickicide available to NSW cattlemen as a pour-on. National Registration Authority (NRA) has suddenly and without sufficient warning withdrawn Bayticol from the market. Ticks are not a major problem in the USA as they are in the eastern states of Australia.
The EPA has declared that from end March 2002 Baytical Pour-on will be illegal to use and certainly there will be no further stock on retail suppliers shelves. From end August 2002 it will be illegal to possess Bayticol Pour-on.
Don't be fooled, the Queensland tick can be controlled with Amitik and Taktik but those substances are useless against the Paralysis Tick of east coast NSW.
Write to your local parlimentarian before it is too late. Our next season calves will be riddled with bush and paralysis ticks because we will have no pour on to treat them. Bayticol Spray will be allowed but that requires a comlpete body spray to be effective.


February 2002

The impact of Joint Certification Responsibility
The new Joint Certification Responsibility (JCR) was implemented on 1st October 2001. this system operates under processing company's Meat Safety Quality Assurance (MSQA) programs.

Cattlecare favoured under JCR
Few people realise how important 'on-farm' QA will become under these new AQIS requirements.
In a nutshell, processors most now adopt an auditable Livestock Sourcing Program. This means they will be responsible for implementing a system which verifies to AQIS that market access requirements have been met when purchasing livestock. Cattlecare accredited farms will be favoured by the processors, while It goes to say to producers that if they are not in a QA program their animals sim