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Annex

Information: Pest risk management measures for pests of avocados from Chile

Effective 13 October 2021

Pest

Common name

Agreed Measures

Fruit flies

Ceratitis capitata

Mediterranean fruit fly

Area freedom

Mealybugs

Pseudococcus maritimus

Grape mealybug

Consignment freedom verified by pre-export visual inspection and remedial action if live pests are found (a)

Thrips

Frankliniella australis

Chilean flower thrips

Consignment freedom verified by pre-export visual inspection and remedial action if live pests are found (a)

Frankliniella gemina

Tamarugo thrips

Frankliniella occidentalis (NT only, RA)

Western flower thrips

Oligonychus spider mites

Oligonychus punicae

Avocado brown mite

Consignment freedom verified by pre-export visual inspection and remedial action if live pests are found (a)

Oligonychus yothersi

Avocado red mite

(a) Remedial action includes either treatment of the consignment using an approved treatment to ensure that the pest is no longer viable or withdrawing the consignment from export to Australia.

NT: Pest of biosecurity concern for the Northern Territory

RA: A regulated article is defined by the IPPC as ‘Any plant, plant product, storage place, packaging, conveyance, container, soil and any other organism, object or material capable of harbouring or spreading pests, deemed to require phytosanitary measures, particularly where international transportation is involved’ (FAO 2019b).