Compendium of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Requirements

Introduction
Australia
ASEAN Member Countries
International Standards for Phytosanitary Measures
Helpful Information

Introduction
There is a considerable body of written information available about phytosanitary requirements. This section contains documents from Australia, ASEAN member countries as well as the International Standards for Phytosanitary Measures (ISPM).

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Scoping study to identify disinfestation technologies to deliver organic fruit and vegetables to export markets 

Acknowledgement
Permission for the use of the document above was given by:
Robert Holmes
Department of Primary Industries
Victorian Government 
AUSTRALIA
Contact details can be obtained from the document.

ASEAN Member Countries
The risk from different exporting countries and the concerns of different importing countries are in keeping with the varied international distribution of pests, diseases and production practices, Phytosanitary requirements can therefore be quite different for each exporting and importing partnership. Each exporter should check with their market for specific requirements. Some ASEAN phytosanitary requirements are outlined below.

Procedures for importation of plants and plant products

Acknowledgement
Permission for the use of the document above was given by:
Jamalludin bin Haji Mohd Yusoff
Department of Agriculture
Darussalam 
BRUNEI DARUSSALAM
Contact details can be obtained from the document.

Law of the Republic of Indonesia, No. 16 of 1992, concerning animal, fish, and plant quarantine

Acknowledgement
Permission for the use of this document was given by:
Ministry of Agriculture
Cooperation Division 
Agency for Agricultural Quarantine 
J1. Harsono RM 3 Gd.E/Lt.V-Jakarata 12550
INDONESIA 
Email: caqsps@indo.net.id
Telephone: + 6221 7805035/6
Facsimile: + 6221 7816481/3
Website: www.deptan.go.id/karantina/home.htm

Phytosanitatry requirements for Singapore

Acknowledgement
Permission to use this document was provided by:
Dr Paul Chiew King Tiong
Agri-food & Veterinary Authority
SINGAPORE 
Contact details can be obtained from the document. 

Decision of the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development concerning the issuance of phytosanitary standards. No: 128/1998/QD-BNN/BVTV Ha Noi, 11 September 2000, Phytosanitary standard

Order No.11/2001/L-CTN of August 8, 2001 on the promulgation of the ordinance on the plant protection and quarantine

Regulation of plant quarantine 

Acknowledgement
Permission for the use of the document above was given by:
Mr Dam Quoc Tru
Deputy Director General
Plant Protection Department
149 Ho Dac Di St.
Dong Da Ha No1
VIETNAM
Email: trudq@fpt.vn
Telephone: +844 857 3808/851 8198
Facsimile +844 533 0043

International Standards for Phytosanitary Measures
The International Standards for Phytosanitary Measures (ISPM) were prepared by the Secretariat of the International Plant Protection Convention via the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation. 

They aim to: 

• Prevent the spread of plant diseases and pests and promote measures for their control

• Harmonise international phytosanitary measures so as to assist trade and prevent the use of scientifically unsound phytosanitary requirements as trade barriers. 

Principals of plant quarantine as related to international trade 

Guidelines for pest risk analysis

Code of conduct for the import and release of exotic biological control agents

Requirements for the establishment of pest free areas

Glossary of phytosanitary terms, 2002

Glossary of phytosanitary terms, 2003 complement

ISPM No.5 glossary of phytosanitary terms 2004 new and revised terms as agreed by ICPM-6 in new approved ISPMs

Guidelines for surveillance

Export certification system

Determination of pest status in an area

Guidelines for pest eradication programmes

Requirements for the establishment of pest free places of production and pest free production sites

Pest risk analysis for quarantine pests, including analysis of environmental risks and living modified organisms (2004)

Guidelines for phytosanitary certificates

Guidelines for the notification of non-compliance and emergency action

The use of integrated measures in a systems approach for pest risk management

Certification mark

Guidelines for regulating wood packaging material in international trade

Provisional outline and programme for a workshop on ISPM No.15

Questions regarding the practical use of wood packaging mark in ISPM No.15

Regulated non-quarantine pests: concepts and application

Pest reporting

Guidelines for the use of irradiation as a phytosanitary measure

Guidelines on lists of regulated pests

Guidelines for a phytosanitary import regulatory system

Pest risk analysis for regulated non-quarantine pests

Acknowledgement
Permission to use these standards was provided by the International Plant Protection Convention. The standards are updated regularly. They should be checked every six months using the contact details available in the ISPM documents. 

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Helpful Documents

The following documents provide useful information about sanitary and phytosanitary matters.

Chlorination can be used to sanitize fruit and vegetables. The following document describes chlorination: reagents, applications, and limitations. It also covers how to maintain or increase chlorination effectiveness, what chlorine levels to use for specific produce, and how to measure the level of chlorine.

Chlorination in the production and postharvest handling of fresh fruit and vegetables 

The following documents give general advice on good agricultural practices for microbial food safety. 

Key points of control and management of microbial food safety for melon producer, handlers and processors

Key points of control and management of microbial food safety for growers, packers and handlers of fresh-consumed horticultural products

Acknowledgement
Permission to use these documents was provided by: 
Adel A. Kader
Postharvest Technology Research & Information Centre 
Department of Pomology 
University of California, Davis
One Shields Avenue
Davis CA 95616 
UNITED STATES 
Telephone: +530 752 0122 or +530 752 10011 (main campus switchboard) 
Website: postharvest.ucdavis.edu

The following documents may assist growers to produce safer fruit and vegetables by reducing the level of pesticide use via biological control. 

Classical biological control of arthropods of Australia

Biological control of insect pests: Southeast Asian prospects

Chapters 1 to 3 

Chapter 4

References 

Index of scientific names of insects

General index

The following report covers many phytosanitary (quarantine) aspects of fruit flies in the ASEAN region.

Management of fruit flies of the Pacific, ACIAR Proceedings No. 76

Proceedings to page 63 (including contents) 

Proceedings from page 64 to 114

Proceedings from page 115 to 160

Proceedings from page 161 to 221

Proceedings from page 222

Acknowledgement
Permission to use these documents was provided by:
ACIAR
GPO Box 1571
Canberra ACT 2601
AUSTRALIA 
Telephone: + 612 6217 0500
Facsimile: +612 6217 0501
Email: aciar@aciar.gov.au
Website: www.aciar.gov.au

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