frozen fruit

From the VKS-737 Web Site

Permitted items
• Dehydrated (dried) fruit and vegetables commercially produced and packaged, are subject to inspection for insect infestation on arrival in Western Australia.
• All cooked and tinned food is permitted.
• Dairy and meat products are permitted.
• Frozen fresh food is permitted except for apples, grapes, stone-fruit, paw paw, onion and potatoes.
• Other processed food such as flour, biscuits, fruit cake, dried packet foods, pickles, relishes, jams and fruit juice/cordial are permitted.

Hope this helps.

The best thing to do would be to email the relevant ag depts and find out for sure .

goodday people
i am still trying to work out why they take honey as i dont believe what you buy in wa shops has had any special treatment to what you buy in the east
i reckon a lot is just a quick profit for the west
we try to arrive with stuff all for them and just do our shopping at the next place

steve

I discovered that it was acceptable to cut up fruit & make it into fruit salad and even after looking into the fridge and seeing it the Fruit Fly Nazi told me it was OK.

I've always tried to do the right thing, but still had some *interesting * experiences. If your blood pressure is up after escaping, be sure to note all the facts and write to their bosses. There's no reason for an honest family being treated like criminals.

Coming in to WA: With vegetables, it is basically anything that could carry soil - so you can peel the potatoes and onions well and present for inspection. The onions keep unrefrigerated for a few days (don't put them in the fridge unless you like onion flavoured everything).

Same as taking fruit you just bought into the Riverlands SA. I most likely was grown there, but you can't bring any fruit in, so follow the regulations - they are there for good reason. A bit of forward planning helps - although the 'eat all fruit now' sign resulted in us stopping and eating the lot!

Honey can carry 'foul brood' viruses, which decimate the bees, in which case the entire hive and all the bees need to be destroyed. A bit like burning down your business in its entirety, with no insurance or compensation.

Extracts:

"Western Australia is free of European Foul Brood disease and other economically important exotic bee diseases and mites that can adversely affect the bee and horticulture industries and quarantine measures are in place to prevent their entry.

Prohibited
All honey, honey comb, beeswax, pollen, bees, used beekeeping equipment and used appliances, queen bees queen cells, package bees or other apiary products are prohibited from entering Western Australia.

Restricted
HONEY AND BEE PRODUCTS
Pasteurised honey (heated to 65 degrees Celsius for 8 hours) may enter subject to interstate health certification. This can be arranged through the Department of Agriculture or Department of Primary Industry in the State of origin.

Honey from overseas may enter subject to specific quarantine protocols and prior approval of the Chief Veterinary Officer.

Honey in queen candy, bee collected pollen or food for bees (pollen supplements) which contain any bee products must be irradiated to 16 kilo Gray to inactivate all infectious agents and must be accompanied by an interstate health certificate to enter the state."

Like all quarantine regulations, we are just protecting our industry and livelihood. If it was just up to people's consciences, someone somewhere would do the wrong thing.

I could go on but won't bore you further.

Motherhen

Greetings all,
Despite all the adverse comments on this thread about the border quarantine issues, please remember that the Quarantine officers DO NOT write the rules, they are just doing their job,often under extreme conditions.
They do not take produce for their own use. From personal experience one gets sick of the sight of honey and good produce being destroyed but, believe me, the risks to Agriculture are real.

In my past life I worked on a border checkpoint and the attitude of "some" travellers was appalling. Rude, ignorant and totally offensive.
Most however were quite reasonable when the reasons for quarantine were explained.

There was an earlier thread posted here about bringing honey into WA, about a month ago. Look it up and read the response from Marie Bracks- Burns from WA's Ag dept.
Explains clearly why honey is not allowed.

WA does not have Codling Moth in fruit,(apples, pears, some stone fruit). Less chemical use needed, and a definite marketing advantage over the rest of Aust
Many weed species are also not present in WA so radiators, chassis and underbody are also inspected if the officer thinks it necessary.

Please check with WA Dept of Agriculture & Food before travelling west to find out what you can or can't bring through the check points.
It will make your journey easier.

Disco

Geez we must breed some damn smart bees and moths in this country...smart enough for them to know they are not allowed to cross the border to collect pollen or lay eggs.
And the birds that catch the moths
And so on
..and so on
Bureaucrats!!!

We did the Nullabor last year and took a vacuum machine with us. Just peeled and sealed all the bits that we thought may be taken and WALLA, did not loose anything.
Cheers, Nev.

A couple of years back we went up the Gunbarrel to Alice and back down the Central Desert Road. We forgot all about quarantine until stopped by the roadside by the very nice quarantine officers. We were asked if we had brought any fresh fruit or veggies over the border. We replied that we had but couldn't produce them becasue that had been two days earlier and we had eaten them all by that time.

Perhaps the quarantine officers needed to be a bit nearer the border than Laverton!