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A BIOSECURITY dog has started her sniffing career in style – her detection work resulting in a Vietnamese air passenger being denied entry to New Zealand and later sent home.

Biosecurity officials have reported the bizarre discovery of two massive ostrich eggs in the luggage of a passenger at Auckland airport.

Border officials sent two foreign air passengers packing last Friday after they tried to smuggle seeds through Auckland airport.

The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) is making good progress in implementing the recommendations of the recent independent review of imports of kiwifruit plant material.

A 58-year-old Chinese man was sentenced in Manukau District Court last week for trying to bring a variety of unauthorised plant seeds into New Zealand.