Quality Testing Project
The Western Australian pome fruit industry has been funding quality program work over recent years to deliver improved quality to consumers and to build better business capability and profitability for members.
Minimum Maturity Standards WA Apples
Pomewest is committed to ensure the apple industry provides quality apples to market.
Industry led testing is in place to ensure that three commodity apple lines, Gala, Granny Smith and Pink Lady have met industry endorsed minimum maturity standards when presented for sale. Inspections are funded by the Agricultural Produce Commission Fee for Service collection for Pome fruit. Testing promotes confidence that these varieties meet consumer taste satisfaction and will encourage repeat sales.
The standards have been endorsed by the WA Pome industry as part of industry self-regulation practice and follows the parameters of existing quality programs already running nationally for the table grape and citrus industries.
“The end goal is to encourage repeat purchases with great eating experiences for our customers to promote increased consumption, product demand, sales and returns for the entire supply chain.”
