Processor – Technologies and Processes to Reduce Plant Pest Contamination and Risk

Costs for the sole purpose of decreasing pest risk to plant health:

• Management tools and equipment including:
  • Using new technologies or practices to reduce pest development and spread
  • Innovative pest mitigation technologies that reduce worker exposure and environmental risk
• Monitoring and diagnostic tools including:
  • Monitoring equipment (e.g., optical sorters)
  • Pest modeling software
• Modifications or additions to existing structures to establish an anteroom or header house into high-risk areas
  • Proposed modifications or additions must clearly demonstrate separation of clean and dirty traffic flow through a CAP
• Modifications to existing structures to facilitate more efficient movement of plants and people to reduce plant health biosecurity risks
• Improving traffic flow efficiency to reduce contamination through establishing new or existing walkways, laneways, access routes, etc.
• Construction of hard surface pad or wash bay facility for cleaning and disinfecting vehicles and equipment outside a CAP or CAZ
• Installation of specialized cleaning and disinfection equipment
• Plant hygiene or treatment equipment
• Installing a treatment system to remove pathogens, particulates, crop residue or contaminants from water
• Construction or modification of a structure used only as a quarantine or isolation facility