Importing spices and grain foods

[spangley]

Hi all,

I'm quite a kitchen enthusiast and have a lovely selection of seeds and spices such as cardamom and cumin etc.  I also have canned foods and bags of porridge oats and pasta.  Will I be able to bring this stuff over to Aus?

Thanks in advance

[Cerberus1]

http://www.agriculture.gov.au/travelling/bringing-mailing-goods#check

 

Spices

Dried, ground spices and spice mixes weighing no greater than 1 kilogram are allowed into Australia. Spices and spice mixes consist of dried, ground plant material only. This will be verified by:

• checking the label on each package
• inspection
• information provided by the importer.

All spice mixes must be in clean and new packaging.

Spice mixes (including powdered herbs) may be released without inspection if the product is commercially prepared and in ready for sale retail packaging. All other consignments will be subject to an inspection to verify that it is free of seeds, live insects, soil and other biosecurity risk material.

If an item does not meet all of the above conditions it must be treated, exported from Australia or destroyed. Treatment or export is at the importer’s expense.

For individual items of each product type weighing more than 1 kilogram please refer to the commercial import requirements in BICON.

 

 

If you're looking at fetching them in a container for example,  then have a look at the BICON link.