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Managing Fruit Fly
Area
Freedom: Fruit Fly Exclusion Zone
Fruit Fly
- world's worst fruit pest
Warning to
Travellers
Advice for FFEZ
residents
Map
of Fruit Fly Exclusion Zone
Further
Information
Area Freedom: Fruit Fly Exclusion
Zone
The Fruit Fly Exclusion Zone (FFEZ)
encloses valuable horticultural areas of New South Wales, Victoria
and South Australia, into which it is illegal to carry fresh fruit
without a permit.
There is a risk that the fruit may contain hidden fruit
fly eggs or maggots. The majority of fruit fly outbreaks are associated
with travellers bringing infested fruit into the Fruit Fly Exclusion
Zone.
It is vital to keep the FFEZ 'fruit fly free'. The value of horticultural
products within the FFEZ is estimated at $500 million per year.
Fruit fly outbreaks cost Australian fruit growers up to $100 million
each year in lost income and eradication.
Just one piece of infested fruit brought into a horticultural
area within the Fruit Fly Exclusion Zone can cause this hardship.
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