Given where the summerfruit industry is at in terms of the export season, we would like to remind growers about the Fruit Fly Host Material Official Assurance Programme (OAP).
This programme is voluntary, but MPI-approved organisations that adopt the OAP into their systems will find it easy to adapt to the traceability and phytosanitary security requirements of a fruit fly incursion. Many other sectors have already adopted the OAP (e.g., apples, kiwifruit), but the summerfruit sector has not widely adopted the programme.
We encourage you to think of this as an insurance policy because the export season is very short. This OAP gives you an opportunity to be prepared.
The OAP can be found here.