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Legislative Council - Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)
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Fruit Fly Outbreak

The Hon. C.M. SCRIVEN (Minister for Primary Industries and Regional Development, Minister for Forest Industries) (14:25): I seek leave to make a ministerial statement on the topic of fruit fly outbreak in metropolitan Adelaide.

Leave granted.

The Hon. C.M. SCRIVEN: I have received advice from the Department of Primary Industries and Regions (PIRSA) that there have been six detections of male Queensland fruit fly in Salisbury North within an area of a one-kilometre radius and within a period of two weeks, which is an outbreak trigger under Australia's National Fruit Fly Management protocol. These detections have occurred in the permanent and supplementary trapping network in multiple locations in Salisbury North.

As a result, an outbreak has been declared and the following controls put in place: a 200-metre radius red centre, a 1.5-kilometre outbreak area and a 15-kilometre radius suspension area. A PIRSA response plan is in place and a response team has been established to commence eradication procedures.

A baiting program will commence and is intended to run for a period of 12 weeks, while bait will be applied to trees within the red centre, 200 metres from the outbreak point, twice per week and once per week within the 1.5-kilometre outbreak zone. At the conclusion of the baiting program, it is intended that aerial sterile insect technology (SIT) flies will be released across the outbreak area to contain this outbreak.

Hygiene practices will be put in place within the red centre where fallen fruit will be collected and fruit trees found to have larvae-infested fruit will be stripped. Technical checks will be undertaken within the outbreak area. Significant volumes of fresh produce are grown within the suspension area which will need to be treated to avoid fruit fly spreading further before leaving the suspension area.

Market access movement restrictions will be in place, with PIRSA working with industry and commercial partners to identify treatment capacity requirements and movement protocols. PIRSA is working with industry to establish additional treatment facilities to accommodate the expected increase in demand for the service. A significant public information program will commence today to ensure a clear understanding of the restrictions that will be in place across the three controlled areas.

Residents located in the 200-metre red centre and the 1.5-kilometre outbreak area must not move any homegrown fruit and vegetables from their property. Residents living within the 15-kilometre radius suspension area are permitted to move homegrown fruit and vegetables from their property so long as it remains within the 15-kilometre suspension area. Homegrown fruit and vegetables must not be moved out of the 15-kilometre radius suspension area.

There are no strict restrictions in place for packed school lunch boxes containing supermarket and retail outlet purchased fruit and vegetables. Further information is available at fruitfly.sa.gov.au or on the PIRSA website.

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