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- In the past, Australia's lack of shared land borders has provided a degree of natural protection from exotic pest and disease threats that may impact on the grains industry. Despite strict quarantine systems there will always be some risk of an exotic pest entering and establishing in commercial grain production areas. Should a new pest enter Australia, one of the first steps required in ensuring that industry is well placed to respond is identification of appropriate methods of control. In many instances, control may be best achieved using chemicals, but in the case of new pest incursions, chemicals will not be available until a permit is in place to support their use. Biosecurity risk mitigation efforts are therefore required to ensure that the grains industry has emergency or minor use permits in place to ensure that chemicals are available in the first stages of an incursion response. This project will deliver pesticide data packages for development of emergency, minor use or "shelf" permits for 25 high or medium priority pests of the Australian grains industry.