Treatment options for restricted fruit and vegetables

If you're a grower or producer in a fruit fly affected area (Controlled Movement Zone or CMZ), you may need to treat your produce or follow secure transport rules to move it legally (sell it to the receiving market or reach your packing shed).

Know your situation

To identify the best treatment or transport options for your situation, you will need to consider:

• your type of produce
• the market you're selling to
• where it’s grown
• where it’s going (market or packing shed)
• whether it's being treated before transport.

Other determining factors include how your circumstances align with:

• movement restrictions
• sensitive and non-sensitive markets
• secure conditions
• transport arrangements.

Other options

Contact industry support to discuss treatment options if you grow a restricted fruit or vegetable that is not listed.

If there are no treatment options available, you may need to consider selling your fruit and vegetables to a non-sensitive market interstate.

Certifications required

If you grow produce in a Controlled Movement Zone, you need PIRSA approval through certification before you can:

• sell the produce within the CMZ
• move the produce from your property within the red outbreak area, known as a Corrective Action Zone (CAZ) – this includes moving to another CAZ
• move the produce outside of the yellow suspension area, known as an Export Assurance Zone (EAZ).

Accredited third parties can apply end-point treatments, such as cold treatment and fumigation.

Before you or your transporter move your fruit and vegetables to these treatment providers, you may need to arrange a secure movement certificate.

Untreated produce

For produce that has not been treated, you must have a Chief Inspector Movement Certificate (CIMC).

Treated produce

For produce that has been treated, you must have:

1. An Inspector’s Direction Certificate – request this by email:
   • for Riverland: marketaccessrenmark.aaslocal@sa.gov.au
   • for Salisbury North and Glynde: pirsa.marketaccesssalisburyaaslocal@sa.gov.au.
2. Either of the following to accompany the consignment:
   • Plant Health Certificate (PHC) – complete and submit the PHC online form or the Plant Health Certificate   ( PDF 173.8 KB )
   • Plant Health Assurance Certificate (PHAC) – apply for Accreditation for Interstate Certification Assurance (ICA) and Compliance Arrangement (CA).

Securing produce after certification

You must secure your fruit and vegetables from the point of certification, and they must remain in that condition either:

• at all times if you're selling within the fruit fly affected area (CMZ)
• until leaving the CMZ.