This week, Biosecurity SA ordered all fruit from the affected Queensland grower be removed from storage and supermarket shelves. However, the Australian Mangoes Industry Association said consumers can be confident that there will be no shortage of mangoes this Christmas, and pricing will not be affected either.
“There will be an abundance of quality fruit in South Australia and throughout Australia over the next few weeks and into the new year,” a spokesman for the mango industry representatives said. “This should also have no impact on current retail pricing.”
According to the Daily Telegraph, about 126,000 mangoes were recalled. Despite the recall, Biosecurity SA executive director Will Zacharin said the detection did not constitute an outbreak of fruit fly in SA. The larvae were discovered in a mango purchased from an Adelaide business and it was reported to authorities by a resident in Hawthorndene. “On further investigation, we determined it was from a large batch of fruit provided by a distributor that supplies numerous stores in South Australia. Quick action from a member of the public alerted us to the heavily infested fruit. I cannot stress enough how important it is to check your fruit, especially if it has come from interstate.”
“The State and Federal Governments together with the Australian mango industry take biosecurity very seriously,” said the spokesman.
