Mr Burke has spoken today to the director of quarantine to make sure the Australian Government is keeping all its systems up to date as new information about the disease and its movements come to hand.

"Certainly at the moment everything that we're doing is completely in line with what the World Health Organisation is recommending," Mr Burke said.

"I want to make sure that we continue to monitor that on a day to day basis."

Mr Burke would not comment on the likelihood of any Australian moves to ban imports of pork to help counter the spread of the disease, as has happened overnight in other countries.

"My concern is to make sure we are up to date with the latest information and we're abiding by the recommendations coming out of the WHO," he said.

"I don't think any of us should be alarmist about pigmeat itself. What we do need to do is ensure that whatever safety precautions are recommended that Australia is being flexible in dealing with them as the need arises."

Mr Burke said if there was a need to increase quarantine, as directed by the WHO, then he would also want to make sure that Australia would adapt as required.

"At the moment, the procedures that Australia has in place are completely in line with what the WHO is telling us we need to be doing."

Australian Pork Limited said it was not currently worried about any particular imports coming to Australia carrying the disease.

APL media manager, Emily Mackintosh, said imports to Australia from the United States were frozen and boneless and sold direct to processors.