Alerts

The purpose of this notification is to advise stakeholders that the exclusion list for high-risk plant products on the khapra beetle urgent actions webpage has been updated. The list of high-risk plant products is relevant to Phases 1 to 3 and Phase 6A part 1. The updated exclusions list of high-risk plant products is available on our webpage.

Note: The exclusion list for other risk plant products has also been updated. However, this list only applies to Phase 4 of the urgent actions which has been placed on hold.

Who does this alert affect:
Importers of high-risk plant products and other stakeholders in the import and shipping industries – including vessel masters, freight forwarders, treatment providers, Biosecurity Industry Participants, importers, customs brokers, principal shipping agents, and any other operators in the sea container supply and logistics chain.

What is the change?
Exclusions to the high-risk plant products list have been updated. The following plant products arriving in Australia from 2 August 2021 are no longer considered high-risk:

• Commercially prepared and packaged goods that have been thermally processed so that the nature of the material has been transformed from their original raw form.
• Goods that are commercially processed to a powder, meal or flakes and packaged in bags less than or equal to 25kg (such as cereal flours like semolina, wheat flour, chilli flakes and ground spices).
  Note: these goods do not require mandatory treatment from khapra beetle target risk countries but commercial consignments will require a phytosanitary certificate verifying freedom from khapra beetle.
• Breakfast cereals, instant cereal beverage mixes, couscous meal mixes and snack foods that are commercially prepared and retail packaged.*
• Bakery and bread mixes (including whole seeds) that are commercially prepared and retail packaged.*
• Commercially prepared and packaged herbal teas, with or without seeds (including loose leaf and tea bags).

*An imported good is considered retail packaged if it has been commercially prepared and packaged overseas and is in a final state that requires no further processing, packaging or labelling prior to sale or use in Australia.

Note: Visit our webpage for a full list of exclusions.

Import conditions:
BICON import conditions for impacted goods have been amended to incorporate the revised conditions.

Further information:
For further information, see:

• urgent actions to protect against khapra beetle (Trogoderma granarium)
• khapra beetle bulletin.

For:

• Questions and information related directly to offshore khapra beetle treatments, please email offshoretreatments@agriculture.gov.au.
• All other enquiries regarding these measures, please phone 1800 900 090 or email imports@agriculture.gov.au (please title the subject line of the email with ‘Plant Tier 2 – khapra urgent actions’).