Division 1 Processing requirements

The processing of the specified wood must fulfil all of the following requirements:

1. (a)

   Debarking

   The specified wood is debarked, with the exception of any number of visually separate and clearly distinct small pieces of bark which comply with one of the following requirements:

   1. (a)

      they are less than 3 cm in width (regardless of length); or

   2. (b)

      if they are greater than 3 cm in width, the total surface area of each individual piece of bark is less than 50 cm².

2. (b)

   Sawing

   The specified sawn wood is produced from debarked round wood.

3. (c)

   Heat treatment

   The specified wood is heated through its profile to at least 71 °C for 1 200 minutes in a heat chamber approved by the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), or an agency approved by APHIS.

4. (d)

   Drying

   The specified wood is dried following industrial drying schedules of at least two-week duration, recognised by APHIS.

   The final moisture content of the wood shall not exceed 10 % expressed as a percentage of dry matter.