date:Feb 28, 2017
Faced with record numbers of international visitors, the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) biosecurity staff have been busy protecting the country's economy and environment.
Among these was the discovery of fruit fly larvae in mangos found at Auckland Airport inside a suitcase from Malaysia jammed full of plant produce and other food.
MPI screened 684,407 air passengers for biosecurity risks last month, an increase of more than 10 per cent (64,121) from January 2016 and intercepted about 1