World Trade and Sanitary/Phytosanitary (SPS) Regulation
The vapour heat treatment(VHT) is one of the phytosanitary measures taken to control fruit fly larvae in imported fresh fruits, especially mango and papaya. VHT is a requirement for fruit imports into Japan. In a visit to Thailand recently, a company exporting fresh fruits to Japan (mangos and mangosteens) also had mangosteens subjected to VHT. For those familiar with tropical fruits, the mangosteen, due to the thickness and constituency of its rind (skin) is not normally associated with fruit fly infestation. As VHT is expensive, it is not practical to have mangosteens go through the treatment. Comments anybody ?
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1. Piak Chwee Chua | July 25th, 2008 at 1:24 am
Importing countries need to review their “stringent” regulations and not impose a blanket
regulation for all fruit types.
2. Dr K V Peter | September 16th, 2009 at 11:22 am
VHT is a green technology to decontaminate fruits,vegetables and spices.It is also done in processed plantation crops.The technology will be cheaper once the scale of operation is high.Steam sterilised black pepper is essential when exported to USA and EU.Recently Dr P C Tripathi(prakashtripathii2000@yahoo.com) contributed a chapter on Principles of food irradiation appearing in the book Science of Horticulture edited by Dr K V Peter and published by New India Publishing Company,New Delhi(newindiapublishingagency@gmail.com)
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