Red outbreak area restrictions
Rules are in place to limit the movement of restricted fruit and vegetables in red outbreak areas.
If you live, work, go to school, or are travelling through a fruit fly affected area, check the outbreak map to see if you're in a red, yellow, or green zone and follow any restrictions.
Check the outbreak map
Moving home-grown produce
If you are in a red outbreak area, you cannot move, share, or sell home-grown restricted fruit and vegetables from your property. This includes into either:
However, produce can be canned, cooked, dried, frozen, grated, or pureed to remove the risk. This is the only way you can move it from your property in a red outbreak area.
To dispose of the waste, you must double-bag it and put it in a rubbish bin.
Buying produce
Shops (permanent retail business)
If you purchase restricted fruit and vegetables at a shop in a red outbreak area, you can move them across fruit fly affected areas (including green areas) only if you:
- retain the itemised receipt
- seal the fruit and vegetables in a bag or container while moving them.
Roadside sellers, markets and stalls
If you purchase restricted fruit and vegetables from roadside sellers, markets, and stalls in a red outbreak area, you cannot move them into a yellow or green area – even with a receipt.
Riverland Pest Free Area (PFA)
There are permanent restrictions on bringing host produce into the Riverland PFA from any other part of SA.