Program Overview

The program is dedicated to accrediting fumigation centers and includes creating a directory of accredited centers. These centers focus on treating dates using gases approved locally and internationally, and issuing official fumigation certificates that enhance the credibility of dates prepared for export, ensure their safety and quality, and facilitate their entry into global markets.

Program Objectives

• Approved fumigation centers.

• Create a directory of accredited centers.

• Ensure the quality and safety of dates prepared for export.

• Facilitate the entry of dates into global markets.

• Promote compliance with local and international standards and regulations.

Program Conditions

Accreditation of factories as fumigation centers:

• Comply with the fumigation standards and requirements of the National Center for Palms and Dates.

   

• Comply with government requirements and obtain the necessary licenses for fumigation materials used in operations, and disclose them to the National Center for Palms and Dates.

• Use only internationally approved fumigation materials at concentration levels suitable for dates.

• Disclose to the National Center for Palms and Dates the source and quantities of fumigation materials received by the factory.

• Provide fumigation services to third-party companies and date-exporting factories, and issue fumigation certificates addressed to the plant quarantine authority at the export port.

• Submit a monthly report to the National Center for Palms and Dates on the quantities treated through fumigation and the certificates issued to beneficiaries.

Directory of Fumigation Centers:

• None available.