More than 120,000 mangoes shipped to South Australia from Queensland have been recalled after the discovery of fruit fly larvae in some of the fruit.
Biosecurity SA has required a distributor to recall all produce from the affected grower, which is still in storage or on supermarket shelves, including all produce sent to South Australia since the beginning of December.
However, it says the discovery of larvae does not constitute an outbreak of fruit fly.
Biosecurity SA chief executive Will Zacharin said quick action from a member of the public alerted authorities to the heavily infested fruit.
"The importer has elected to fumigate the product still on hand, however, given the seriousness of the infestation a full recall from shelves has been ordered," he said.
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"We will be suspending further consignments and following up with the Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries as to why pre-delivery treatment of the fruit, as required under an import verification compliance arrangement, appears to have failed."
Despite the recall, the Australian Mango Industry Association said there would be no shortage of the popular fruit over Christmas and the recall should not impact on prices.
"There will be an abundance of quality fruit in SA and throughout Australia, over the next few weeks and into the new year," the association said in a statement.
"This week 587,000 trays of mangoes arrived in markets throughout the country.
"The recall was less than two per cent of this volume."
