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Guideline: Pest risk management measures for fresh apples from China

Effective 23 June 2021 to 13 October 2021

Risk management measures recommended for quarantine pests for fresh apples 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
Cydia pomonella (WA)

Peach fruit moth
Manchurian fruit moth
Codling moth

A systems approach specific to these pests

Adoxophyes orana
Amphitetranychus viennensis
Cenopalpus pulcher
Euzophera pyriella
Phenacoccus aceris
Pseudococcus comstocki
Neonectria ditissima
Spilonota albicana

Summer fruit tortrix
Hawthorn spider mite
Flat scarlet mite
Pyralid moth
Apple mealybug
Comstock’s mealybug
European canker
White fruit moth

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

Diplocarpon mali
Gymnosporangium yamadae
Monilinia fructigena
Phyllosticta arbutifolia

Marssonina blotch
Japanese apple rust
Brown rot
Apple blotch

A systems approach specific to these pests

Pathogen Venturia asperata was assessed, current risk management measures are appropriate to mitigate the risk – D21/203002.

(WA) – Pest for Western Australia only.