Senate interim report on prawn disease spread critical of govt departments

Updated June 26 2017 - 10:52am, first published June 23 2017 - 1:45pm
DISEASE STRIKES: A prawn infected with white spot disease. The infection has been found in Logan River prawn farms and across Moreton Bay.
DISEASE STRIKES: A prawn infected with white spot disease. The infection has been found in Logan River prawn farms and across Moreton Bay.

AN interim federal government report has found that biosecurity staff and other officials were slow to react to allegations that white spot disease was being found in imported prawns.