A ban on the fruit has been in effect for over a decade due to problems with fruit flies
Taiwan News
Date: 2019/05/13
By: Teng Pei-ju, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
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TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Taiwan will likely start importing mangosteen fruit from Thailand in late July, as a 16-year ban on the Southeast Asian tropical fruit will be lifted soon, said the country’s Council of Agriculture (COA).
The import of mangosteen fruit to Taiwan has been suspended since 2003 due to the spread of fruit flies, bactrocera carambolae and bactrocera papayae, in the fruit which are prevalent in Southeast Asia.
Over the past seven to eight years, Thailand has continued to improve its biosecurity and quarantine measures to tackle the fruit fly problem, COA Deputy Minister Chen Chun-chi (陳駿季) told Central News Agency on Monday (May 13).
The mangosteen fruit from Thailand has recently fulfilled the import requirements of horticultural produce from COA’s Bureau of Animal and Plant Health Inspection and Quarantine (BAPHIQ), which issued a public notice of the matter on April 26.
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