SA: Fruit fly outbreak in SA

AAP General News (Australia)
12-04-2000
SA: Fruit fly outbreak in SA

ADELAIDE, Dec 4 AAP - A fruit fly outbreak at a property in Adelaide's eastern suburbs
was confirmed today.

Primary Industries and Resources SA (PIRSA) said an outbreak of Mediterranean fruit
fly maggots had been discovered at a property in Millswood.

PIRSA chief executive Dennis Mutton believed the source of the outbreak was infested
fruit brought into the state "by unthinking travellers".

Households within a 400 metre radius of the source property would be contacted as treatment
on the property continued, he said in a statement.

AAP sl/cjh

KEYWORD: FRUITFLY

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