Does wood packaging material need to be debarked?
Irrespective of the type of treatment applied, all wood packaging material must be made of debarked wood. For the AWPCS, any number of visually separate and clearly distinct small pieces of bark may remain if they are: • less than 3 cm in width (regardless of the length) or • greater than 3 cm in width, with the total surface area of an individual piece of bark less than 50 square cm. Note: For methyl bromide treatment, the removal of bark must be carried out before the treatment because the presence of bark on wood affects the efficacy of the methyl bromide treatment. For heat treatment, the removal of bark can be carried out before or after treatment.
