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Pest management measures for approved stone fruit from China

Effective 13 December 2017 to 13 December 2018

Risk management measures recommended for quarantine pests for fresh nectarines, peaches, plums and apricots from China

Pest

Common name

Agreed measures

Amphitetranychus viennensis (EP)
Pseudococcus comstocki (EP)
Phenacoccus aceris (EP)
Frankliniella intonsa (EP)
Frankliniella occidentalis (EP, NT)
Adoxophyes orana (EP)
Argyrotaenia ljungiana (EP)
Spilonota albicana (EP)

hawthorn spider mite
comstock mealybug
apple mealybug
Eurasian flower thrips
western flower thrips
summerfruit tortrix
grape tortrix
white fruit moth

Visual inspection and if detected, remedial action.
Commercial production practices and phytosanitary inspection by General Administration for Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of the People’s Republic of China (AQSIQ).
*Note: Measures for Frankliniella occidentalis only required for nectarines exported to the Northern Territory.

Bactrocera correcta (EP)
Bactrocera dorsalis (EP)

guava fruit fly
oriental fruit fly

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

OR

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

Drosophila suzukii (EP)

spotted wing drosophila (SWD)

Area freedom
*Note: The province of Xinjiang is currently the only approved pest free area.
OR

A systems approach including cold treatment

Anarsia lineatella (EP)
Carposina sasakii (EP)
Grapholita funebrana (EP)
Grapholita molesta (EP, WA)

peach twig borer
peach fruit borer
plum fruit moth
Oriental fruit moth

Systems approach specific to these pests


Monilinia fructigena (EP)
Monilia mumecola (EP)
Monilia polystroma (EP)
Monilinia yunnanensis (EP)

brown rot

Systems approach specific to these pests

Plum pox virus (EP)

PPV

Fruit sourced from a pest free area and recognised and approved by the Department of Agriculture and Water Resources.
*Note: the department recognises all provinces in China, apart from the province of Hunan as free of PPV.