Adult Basic Education and Training Act, 2000
R 385
Perishable Products Export Control Act, 1983 (Act No. 9 of 1983)RegulationsRegulations relating to the Export of Perishable Products, 2025 - effective July 2025Chapter 8: Post-Harvest Treatment, Loading and Carrying InstructionsPart A: Post-Harvest Treatment and Handling of Specific Perishable Products39. Avocados |
| (1) | Avocados must be conveyed to the packing facility within four hours after picking, shall not stand in the orchard or be exposed to warm temperatures or direct sunlight, and may only be stored unrefrigerated overnight in circumstances where there is no material increase in the temperature of the avocados. |
| (2) | On arrival at the packing facility, orchard heat must be removed from the avocados by reducing the pulp temperature of the fruit to at least 16°C, and thereafter maintaining that temperature prior to packing. |
| (3) | The correct packing date code must be clearly stamped and legible on the packaging material of all avocados. |
| (4) | Avocados are to be pre-cooled prior to loading into a RRMT to a pulp temperature not exceeding 3.0°C above the initial carrying temperature. |
| (5) | Containers of avocados must only be loaded at one loading point and no shared loading is permitted between different points. |
| (6) | All consignments of avocados loaded inland and conveyed to a port must be fitted with gensets if the TTT is to be exceeded. Any consignments of avocados not fitted with a genset, and that exceed a TTT of three hours will be rejected by the Board. |
| (7) | Deviations from the initial carrying temperature of avocados, as prescribed in the Schedule, are permitted at the time of loading in the following circumstances: |
| (a) | Avocados with a pulp temperature, determined by a probe at no more than 3.0°C above such carrying temperature, may be containerised. |
| (b) | Avocados with a pulp temperature, determined by a probe to be in excess of 3.0°C above such carrying temperature will be rejected by the Board and must be placed under pre-cooling prior to shipping. |
| (8) | The pulp temperature of avocados shall not, at the time of loading for conventional shipping, exceed 3.0°C above the initial carrying temperature prescribed in the Schedule. |
| (9) | Pulp temperatures in the centre of pallets, as measured with thermocouples and probes taken three layers from the top, may not during the loading process exceed 5.0°C above the prescribed carrying temperature. Should the thermocouple temperature or probe reading reach 5.0°C above the prescribed carrying temperature in the deck, the hatches shall be closed and re-cooling must commence until such time as the warmest pallet is once again at the prescribed carrying temperature, as measured with a thermocouple probe. |
