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New simulation software, Pest or Pathogen Spread (PoPS) Border, helps agencies improve biosecurity by quantifying undetected plant pests. This tool aids in designing effective, risk-based inspection strategies for international trade.

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Area of Science:

  • Biosecurity and Invasive Species Management
  • Agricultural Entomology
  • Computational Biology

Background:

  • Invasive nonnative plant pests pose significant environmental and economic threats, necessitating robust biosecurity measures.
  • Phytosanitary inspections are crucial for preventing biological invasions but face limitations in inspecting the vast volume of global trade.
  • Current inspection strategies struggle to quantify undetected pests and adapt to changing conditions.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce PoPS (Pest or Pathogen Spread) Border, an open-source simulation tool for consignment inspections.
  • To provide a method for quantifying pest slippage rates and evaluating inspection protocols.
  • To support the development of dynamic, risk-based inspection strategies for biosecurity agencies.

Main Methods:

  • Development of the PoPS Border open-source consignment inspection simulator.
  • Utilizing the simulator to analyze historical interception data and estimate contamination rates.
  • Modeling various cargo contamination scenarios to assess inspection strategy effectiveness and workload.

Main Results:

  • The PoPS Border tool enables the estimation of pest contamination rates in imported goods.
  • Quantified tradeoffs between inspection effectiveness and operational workload for different strategies.
  • Identified vulnerabilities in sampling protocols under evolving trade and contamination patterns.

Conclusions:

  • Simulation offers a powerful approach to test inspection strategies and measure outcomes not feasible in field settings.
  • PoPS Border can inform recommendations for optimizing inspection protocols and enhancing biosecurity.
  • This research lays the groundwork for a decision support tool for adaptive inspection protocols.