Skip to Content

Annex

Guideline: Application requirements for vapour heat treatment (VHT)

Effective 6 September 2022

  1. VHT facilities must be registered with the exporting NPPO.
  2. The exporting NPPO must supervise all VHT treatments performed on fruit to Australia.

  3. The exporting NPPO is required to ensure that registered treatment providers are suitably equipped and have systems in place to carry out the treatment in accordance with:

    3.1. Australian phytosanitary treatment application standard for vapour heat treatment (Commonwealth of Australia, 2018).

  4. Treatment commences when the fruit pulp temperature of all probe-monitored fruit reaches, or is above, the required temperature.
  5. The total treatment time will be for a minimum of two hours, including the warming and cooling periods to bring the fruit pulp to the target temperature.