Non-Propagable Forest Produce

Non-propagable (or non-viable) forest produce includes wood material such as:

Measures for Pine Pitch Canker

Below are a number of Import Health Standards related to non-propagable forest produce.

• Wood Packaging Material

This standard covers wood packaging material such as dunnage, crates, fillets, spacers, pallets, drums, reels, and gluts. This is aligned with the international ISPM 15 standard.

• Under 300mm

This standard covers sawn wood up to 300mm thick (any width), including timber, lumber, half rounds, mouldings, doweling and laminated beams.

• Over 300mm

This standard deals with poles, piles, rounds or sleepers more than 300mm thick.

• Panels

Panels such as plywood, particleboard, oriented strand board, fibreboard, veneer and chip board can be found here.

• Woodware

Woodware, such as wooden artworks, furniture-containing wood, redwood burls, furnishings containing wood, household goods containing wood and utensils manufactured from wood is covered by this standard.

• Bark chips

This standard is for bark including bark chips, corks, or items containing unprocessed bark.

• Sawdust

This standard covers sawdust, wood chips, wood shavings or wood wool (including wood sawn, chipped, shaved or peeled to form wood pieces either no larger than 15mm long by 10mm in cross-section or no greater than 1mm in cross-section if longer than 15mm long).

• Bamboo

In this standard there is information about bamboo, cane, willow and rattan, including non-propagable stems (without leaves or roots) from the bamboo and rattan families, reed, cane and willow "withies".

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• Processed Plant and Forestry Products PDF (59 KB) MSWord (403 KB)

Page last updated: 8 October 2008