Importation and Clearance of Fresh Fruit and Vegetables into New Zealand

MPI is proposing to add new options for phytosanitary measures on various fresh fruit and vegetable commodities from Australia. The measures are radiation treatment on avocado, cucumber, pear, pumpkin, butternut, squash and watermelon; low-dose methyl bromide fumigation on capsicum; and “winter window + in-field controls” on pumpkin, butternut and squash. MPI is also proposing to allow importation of butternut and squash from Australia under the same conditions as pumpkin.