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Plant Industries NT newsletter

Details:

Title

Plant Industries NT newsletter

Other title

PINT newsletter

Creator

Northern Territory. Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries, Plant Industries Division

Collection

Plant Industries NT newsletter; PublicationNT; E-Journals; Plant Industries NT newsletter

Date

2011-08

Location

Berrimah

Notes

Made available via the Publications (Legal Deposit) Act 2004 (NT).; This publication contains may contain links to external sites. These external sites may no longer be active.

Language

English

Subject

Horticulture industry; Agriculture; Rangelands; Management; Northern Territory; Periodicals; Cattle industry

Publisher name

Northern Territory Government

Place of publication

Berrimah

Series

Plant Industries NT newsletter

Volume

e-newsletter, August 2011

File type

application/pdf

Use

Attribution International 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)

Copyright owner

Northern Territory Government

License

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Parent handle

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/248403

Citation address

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/570797

Page content

7 Process Potential hazard Cause Control measures/ Good agricultural practices Records Receival of field bins Fruit ripen too quickly Fruit held for too long at ambient conditions before packing and cooling. Holding periods prior to dumping on packing line Fruit must be packed within 24 hours of harvest bins maybe held overnight at ambient conditions but must be dumped for packing the following morning Bin handling Place bins in covered area immediately on arrival do not leave bins in direct sun. Ensure that all bins are correctly identified and bins are stacked so that each separate batch is clearly segregated and easily identified. Monitoring Record delivery details (delivery date and time, number of bins x batch code, bin number, picking team etc) on delivery record Receival quality assessment sample fruit from field bins and assess for maturity, physical damage, sapburn, skin browning, lenticel spotting, foreign matter as per procedure/ work instruction. Report significant quality loss caused by poor harvesting/transport to the harvest/transport supervisor as soon as detected. Delivery record (maybe computer record) Receival quality assessment Sunburn Field bins left in sun for too long. Fruit not suitable for specific market, due to quality loss during harvesting and transport Each receival not identified and segregated correctly and wrong batch sent to market/ customer. Quality problems caused by poor harvesting/transport practices not detected by receival assessment. Suspension of registration for access to domestic quarantine markets ICA procedures not followed for receival inspection. Refer to Mango ICA protocol for requirements ICA receival inpsection record