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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Natasha May

Silly sausage: traveller returning from Bali fined at Darwin airport after dog sniffs out McDonald’s breakfast in backpack

Zinta the detector dog
Zinta the detector dog sniffed out a McDonald’s meal in an inbound traveller’s backpack. Australia has heightened biosecurity measures due to an outbreak of foot and mouth disease in Indonesia. Photograph: Ministry of agriculture

Zinta was new on the job as a biosecurity detector dog and may have felt the weight of Australia’s $80bn agriculture industry on her sleek black shoulders, or rather, her keen wet nose.

That nose managed to sniff out what would become a passenger’s most expensive McDonald’s breakfast, two egg and beef sausage McMuffins and a ham croissant bought in Bali and brought in a backpack into Australia.

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