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Guideline: Pest risk management measures for fresh pears from China

Effective 6 February 2021 to 13 October 2021

Risk management measures recommended for quarantine pests for fresh pears from China

Pest

Common name

Agreed measures

Bactrocera dorsalis

Oriental fruit fly

Either:
Area freedom. The department recognises that north of the latitude 33rd degree is free of tephritid fruit flies
OR
Cold treatment (undertaken either preshipment or in-transit) under the following schedule:
Pulp temperature of 3°C or below for 18 days or more
OR

Fumigation followed by preshipment cold treatment at one of the approved schedules

Carposina sasakii
Grapholita inopinata
Grapholita molesta (WA)
Cydia pomonella (WA)

Peach fruit moth
Manchurian fruit moth
Oriental fruit moth
Codling moth

A systems approach specific to these pests

Acrobasis pyrivorella
Adoxophyes orana
Cacopsylla pyrisuga
Euzophera pyriella
Lymantria dispar
Pseudococcus comstocki
Sphanostigma iakusuiense
Tetranychus viennensis

Pear fruit moth
Summer fruit tortrix
Pear wood psylla
Pyralid moth
Gypsy moth
Comstock’s mealybug
Powdery pear aphid
Hawthorn spider mite

Commercial production practices and phytosanitary inspection by General Administration for Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of the People’s Republic of China (AQSIQ).

Alternaria gaisen
Gymnosporangium asiaticum
Gymnosporangium sabinae
Monilinia fructigena
Physalospora piricola
Venturis nashicola

Black spot of Japanese pear
Japanese pear rust
European pear rust
Brown rot
Physalospora canker
Japanese pear scab

A systems approach specific to these pests

(WA) – Pest for Western Australia only.