Finding a Permit

Plant protection products enable growers to safely control harmful pests, weeds and plant diseases in their crops. These products are critical to providing a reliable supply of healthly vegetables to Australian dinner tables.

The Federal Government provide a searchable database to assist growers and their advisors select an appropriate plant protection product and use it safely.

By way of example, say we have a problem with Western Flower Thrips (WFT) in our field lettuce crop and want to know which plant protection products we can use to control it.

The first step is to enter our query into the APVMA webform as shown ...



Our query asks for all products that meet the following conditions:

Crop = Lettuce
Pest = Western Flower Thrips
State = Victoria

By selecting the search button we are presented with a list of matching products...



We note that permits for many of these products have expired and they can no longer be used for this purpose in Victoria.

*note that different products may be permitted in other states.

This example shows us that the ONLY product we can use to control WFT in Victorian lettuce at this time (May 2008) is Methamidophos.

By selecting PER10416 we can view details for the safe use of this product to control WFT in Victorian lettuce.



We note that this product can only be used:

• On FIELD grown lettuce (not hydroponic or greenhouse crops).
• A maximum of 6 times with at least a week between applications