Hi Rhonda

I'm hoping you can help answer a question! In my many years of lurking here
I've noticed that you work for customs here in Australia. Can you tell me,
or tell me where to look, if we can bring back foods such as Mayo from the
States? One sister has a gourmet food store, and the other is an
international flight attendant. The food store sister wants the FA sister
to bring back jars of Hellmans Mayo when she has trips to LA. Do you know
if we can bring them into Australia?

As an aside - be careful if you happen to pack a frypan in your luggage . .
.. they get rather suspicious about it when leaving LA . . . .

Thanks for your help!

Alexine
(in Melbourne)

In article >, "alexine"
> wrote:

> Hi Rhonda
>
> I'm hoping you can help answer a question! In my many years of
> lurking here I've noticed that you work for customs here in
> Australia. Can you tell me, or tell me where to look, if we can
> bring back foods such as Mayo from the States? One sister has a
> gourmet food store, and the other is an international flight
> attendant. The food store sister wants the FA sister to bring back
> jars of Hellmans Mayo when she has trips to LA. Do you know if we
> can bring them into Australia?
>
> As an aside - be careful if you happen to pack a frypan in your
> luggage . . . they get rather suspicious about it when leaving LA . .
> . .
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
> Alexine (in Melbourne)

I'm not Rhonda, nor do I play her on Usenet, but try here, Alexine:
http://www.shipit.co.uk/Australia_Cu...tine_Rules.htm

When I visited Rhonda in 2002, I brought jams - some homemade, IIRC, and
some commercially made. I can't imagine why your sister couldn't bring
some mayo in - it's a commercially made product in a sealed jar. Fresh
eggs, OTOH, won't get past the ag inspector. Nor will a hollow and
intricately decorated one. Don't ask me how I know this. Dammit.
Also, you might email her at aqis.gov.au and put her name in front of it
in the usual format, a dot between her first and last names.
--
-Barb, <www.jamlady.eboard.com> An update on 7/22/04.

In article >, "alexine"
> wrote:

> Hi Rhonda
>
> I'm hoping you can help answer a question! In my many years of
> lurking here I've noticed that you work for customs here in
> Australia. Can you tell me, or tell me where to look, if we can
> bring back foods such as Mayo from the States? One sister has a
> gourmet food store, and the other is an international flight
> attendant. The food store sister wants the FA sister to bring back
> jars of Hellmans Mayo when she has trips to LA. Do you know if we
> can bring them into Australia?
>
> As an aside - be careful if you happen to pack a frypan in your
> luggage . . . they get rather suspicious about it when leaving LA . .
> . .
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
> Alexine (in Melbourne)

I'm not Rhonda, nor do I play her on Usenet, but try here, Alexine:
http://www.shipit.co.uk/Australia_Cu...tine_Rules.htm

When I visited Rhonda in 2002, I brought jams - some homemade, IIRC, and
some commercially made. I can't imagine why your sister couldn't bring
some mayo in - it's a commercially made product in a sealed jar. Fresh
eggs, OTOH, won't get past the ag inspector. Nor will a hollow and
intricately decorated one. Don't ask me how I know this. Dammit.
Also, you might email her at aqis.gov.au and put her name in front of it
in the usual format, a dot between her first and last names.
--
-Barb, <www.jamlady.eboard.com> An update on 7/22/04.

>
> I'm not Rhonda, nor do I play her on Usenet, but try here, Alexine:
> http://www.shipit.co.uk/Australia_Cu...tine_Rules.htm
>
> When I visited Rhonda in 2002, I brought jams - some homemade, IIRC, and
> some commercially made. I can't imagine why your sister couldn't bring
> some mayo in - it's a commercially made product in a sealed jar. Fresh
> eggs, OTOH, won't get past the ag inspector. Nor will a hollow and
> intricately decorated one. Don't ask me how I know this. Dammit.
> Also, you might email her at aqis.gov.au and put her name in front of it
> in the usual format, a dot between her first and last names.
> --
> -Barb, <www.jamlady.eboard.com> An update on 7/22/04.

Thanks so much for the info Barb - it's greatly appreciated. I didn't think
that there would be a prob with Mayo, but the widely travelled sister did -
maybe she was just still smarting from her frypan experience!!
>

>
> I'm not Rhonda, nor do I play her on Usenet, but try here, Alexine:
> http://www.shipit.co.uk/Australia_Cu...tine_Rules.htm
>
> When I visited Rhonda in 2002, I brought jams - some homemade, IIRC, and
> some commercially made. I can't imagine why your sister couldn't bring
> some mayo in - it's a commercially made product in a sealed jar. Fresh
> eggs, OTOH, won't get past the ag inspector. Nor will a hollow and
> intricately decorated one. Don't ask me how I know this. Dammit.
> Also, you might email her at aqis.gov.au and put her name in front of it
> in the usual format, a dot between her first and last names.
> --
> -Barb, <www.jamlady.eboard.com> An update on 7/22/04.

Thanks so much for the info Barb - it's greatly appreciated. I didn't think
that there would be a prob with Mayo, but the widely travelled sister did -
maybe she was just still smarting from her frypan experience!!
>

"alexine" > wrote in
:

> Hi Rhonda
>
> I'm hoping you can help answer a question! In my many years of
> lurking here I've noticed that you work for customs here in Australia.
> Can you tell me, or tell me where to look, if we can bring back foods
> such as Mayo from the States? One sister has a gourmet food store,
> and the other is an international flight attendant. The food store
> sister wants the FA sister to bring back jars of Hellmans Mayo when
> she has trips to LA. Do you know if we can bring them into Australia?
>

Hi Alexine,

I actually work for Quarantine, not Customs (people mix the two agencies
up all the time!). Customs won't care about the mayonnaise, unless it has
drugs buried in it <g>, but we will.

Whether or not mayo can come in will depend on the egg content. The best
place to look to check out our requirements is on the AQIS website.
There's a database of import conditions - ICON - which will help you
out.Go to www.aqis.gov.au and you'll see a link to ICON to the right of,
and just below, Steve Irwin's picture.Or I've pasted the link to ICON
below - though it's a bit long.Enter mayonnaise into the search field,
and the appropriate conditions will appear, along with the appropriate
disclaimers etc. Do check, as mayo is not all allowed in and it would be
a shame to carry it over here only to have it seized.

http://www.affa.gov.au/content/outpu...9A5-6043-42F6-
921C59E4C655C6A4&contType=outputs



Cheers,
Rhonda Anderson
Cranebrook, NSW, Australia

"alexine" > wrote in
:

> Hi Rhonda
>
> I'm hoping you can help answer a question! In my many years of
> lurking here I've noticed that you work for customs here in Australia.
> Can you tell me, or tell me where to look, if we can bring back foods
> such as Mayo from the States? One sister has a gourmet food store,
> and the other is an international flight attendant. The food store
> sister wants the FA sister to bring back jars of Hellmans Mayo when
> she has trips to LA. Do you know if we can bring them into Australia?
>

Hi Alexine,

I actually work for Quarantine, not Customs (people mix the two agencies
up all the time!). Customs won't care about the mayonnaise, unless it has
drugs buried in it <g>, but we will.

Whether or not mayo can come in will depend on the egg content. The best
place to look to check out our requirements is on the AQIS website.
There's a database of import conditions - ICON - which will help you
out.Go to www.aqis.gov.au and you'll see a link to ICON to the right of,
and just below, Steve Irwin's picture.Or I've pasted the link to ICON
below - though it's a bit long.Enter mayonnaise into the search field,
and the appropriate conditions will appear, along with the appropriate
disclaimers etc. Do check, as mayo is not all allowed in and it would be
a shame to carry it over here only to have it seized.

http://www.affa.gov.au/content/outpu...9A5-6043-42F6-
921C59E4C655C6A4&contType=outputs



Cheers,
Rhonda Anderson
Cranebrook, NSW, Australia

Dog3 <dognospam@adjfkdla;not> wrote in
4:

> "alexine" > got out the keyboard
> and wrote u:
>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> I'm not Rhonda, nor do I play her on Usenet, but try here, Alexine:
>>> http://www.shipit.co.uk/Australia_Cu...tine_Rules.htm
>>>
>>> When I visited Rhonda in 2002, I brought jams - some homemade, IIRC,
>>> and some commercially made. I can't imagine why your sister
>>> couldn't bring some mayo in - it's a commercially made product in a
>>> sealed jar. Fresh eggs, OTOH, won't get past the ag inspector. Nor
>>> will a hollow and intricately decorated one. Don't ask me how I
>>> know this. Dammit. Also, you might email her at aqis.gov.au and put
>>> her name in front of it in the usual format, a dot between her first
>>> and last names. --
>>> -Barb, <www.jamlady.eboard.com> An update on 7/22/04.
>>
>> Thanks so much for the info Barb - it's greatly appreciated. I
>> didn't think that there would be a prob with Mayo, but the widely
>> travelled sister did - maybe she was just still smarting from her
>> frypan experience!!
>
> If all else fails, mail it. a couple of years back I sent her a box
> with bags of chocolate chips, peanut butter chips and I think some
> cinnamon chips. There was no problem shipping them in the sealed
> bags.
>

We do check the mail as well as passenger baggage.I work in the
International Mail program - we screen 100% of the mail. Some of it goes
straight to be inspected based on declarations. The rest of it is x-rayed
and/or screened with detector dogs, and we pull for inspection anything
that we suspect contains something of quarantine concern. The only reason
my parcel arrived intact was that there are no restrictions on chocolate,
peanut butter and (yes, definitely there were) cinnamon chips <g>. I made
oatmeal and cinnamon chip cookies, and they were a big hit at work and
with the next door neighbours, thank you very much.

Barb emailed me and alerted me to the Ping (just as well, as I probably
wouldn't have got around to reading RFC for a while), so I've posted an
answer for Alexine. I'll email it to her as well. Unfortunately,
mayonnaise is restricted, and would have to meet certain conditions to
get in.

Rhonda Anderson
Cranebrook, NSW, Australia

Dog3 <dognospam@adjfkdla;not> wrote in
4:

> "alexine" > got out the keyboard
> and wrote u:
>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> I'm not Rhonda, nor do I play her on Usenet, but try here, Alexine:
>>> http://www.shipit.co.uk/Australia_Cu...tine_Rules.htm
>>>
>>> When I visited Rhonda in 2002, I brought jams - some homemade, IIRC,
>>> and some commercially made. I can't imagine why your sister
>>> couldn't bring some mayo in - it's a commercially made product in a
>>> sealed jar. Fresh eggs, OTOH, won't get past the ag inspector. Nor
>>> will a hollow and intricately decorated one. Don't ask me how I
>>> know this. Dammit. Also, you might email her at aqis.gov.au and put
>>> her name in front of it in the usual format, a dot between her first
>>> and last names. --
>>> -Barb, <www.jamlady.eboard.com> An update on 7/22/04.
>>
>> Thanks so much for the info Barb - it's greatly appreciated. I
>> didn't think that there would be a prob with Mayo, but the widely
>> travelled sister did - maybe she was just still smarting from her
>> frypan experience!!
>
> If all else fails, mail it. a couple of years back I sent her a box
> with bags of chocolate chips, peanut butter chips and I think some
> cinnamon chips. There was no problem shipping them in the sealed
> bags.
>

We do check the mail as well as passenger baggage.I work in the
International Mail program - we screen 100% of the mail. Some of it goes
straight to be inspected based on declarations. The rest of it is x-rayed
and/or screened with detector dogs, and we pull for inspection anything
that we suspect contains something of quarantine concern. The only reason
my parcel arrived intact was that there are no restrictions on chocolate,
peanut butter and (yes, definitely there were) cinnamon chips <g>. I made
oatmeal and cinnamon chip cookies, and they were a big hit at work and
with the next door neighbours, thank you very much.

Barb emailed me and alerted me to the Ping (just as well, as I probably
wouldn't have got around to reading RFC for a while), so I've posted an
answer for Alexine. I'll email it to her as well. Unfortunately,
mayonnaise is restricted, and would have to meet certain conditions to
get in.

Rhonda Anderson
Cranebrook, NSW, Australia

Dog3 <dognospam@adjfkdla;not> wrote in
4:

> "alexine" > got out the keyboard
> and wrote u:
>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> I'm not Rhonda, nor do I play her on Usenet, but try here, Alexine:
>>> http://www.shipit.co.uk/Australia_Cu...tine_Rules.htm
>>>
>>> When I visited Rhonda in 2002, I brought jams - some homemade, IIRC,
>>> and some commercially made. I can't imagine why your sister
>>> couldn't bring some mayo in - it's a commercially made product in a
>>> sealed jar. Fresh eggs, OTOH, won't get past the ag inspector. Nor
>>> will a hollow and intricately decorated one. Don't ask me how I
>>> know this. Dammit. Also, you might email her at aqis.gov.au and put
>>> her name in front of it in the usual format, a dot between her first
>>> and last names. --
>>> -Barb, <www.jamlady.eboard.com> An update on 7/22/04.
>>
>> Thanks so much for the info Barb - it's greatly appreciated. I
>> didn't think that there would be a prob with Mayo, but the widely
>> travelled sister did - maybe she was just still smarting from her
>> frypan experience!!
>
> If all else fails, mail it. a couple of years back I sent her a box
> with bags of chocolate chips, peanut butter chips and I think some
> cinnamon chips. There was no problem shipping them in the sealed
> bags.
>

We do check the mail as well as passenger baggage.I work in the
International Mail program - we screen 100% of the mail. Some of it goes
straight to be inspected based on declarations. The rest of it is x-rayed
and/or screened with detector dogs, and we pull for inspection anything
that we suspect contains something of quarantine concern. The only reason
my parcel arrived intact was that there are no restrictions on chocolate,
peanut butter and (yes, definitely there were) cinnamon chips <g>. I made
oatmeal and cinnamon chip cookies, and they were a big hit at work and
with the next door neighbours, thank you very much.

Barb emailed me and alerted me to the Ping (just as well, as I probably
wouldn't have got around to reading RFC for a while), so I've posted an
answer for Alexine. I'll email it to her as well. Unfortunately,
mayonnaise is restricted, and would have to meet certain conditions to
get in.

Rhonda Anderson
Cranebrook, NSW, Australia

In article > , "alexine"
> wrote:

> >
> > I'm not Rhonda, nor do I play her on Usenet, but try here, Alexine:
> > http://www.shipit.co.uk/Australia_Cu...tine_Rules.htm
> >
> > When I visited Rhonda in 2002, I brought jams - some homemade,
> > IIRC, and some commercially made. I can't imagine why your sister
> > couldn't bring some mayo in - it's a commercially made product in a
> > sealed jar. Fresh eggs, OTOH, won't get past the ag inspector.
> > Nor will a hollow and intricately decorated one. Don't ask me how
> > I know this. Dammit. Also, you might email her at aqis.gov.au and
> > put her name in front of it in the usual format, a dot between her
> > first and last names. -- -Barb, <www.jamlady.eboard.com> An update
> > on 7/22/04.
>
> Thanks so much for the info Barb - it's greatly appreciated. I
> didn't think that there would be a prob with Mayo, but the widely
> travelled sister did - maybe she was just still smarting from her
> frypan experience!!

Well, having seen her reply about it, who knows? Take her word for it,
not mine. :-)
--
-Barb, <www.jamlady.eboard.com> An update on 7/22/04.

In article > , "alexine"
> wrote:

> >
> > I'm not Rhonda, nor do I play her on Usenet, but try here, Alexine:
> > http://www.shipit.co.uk/Australia_Cu...tine_Rules.htm
> >
> > When I visited Rhonda in 2002, I brought jams - some homemade,
> > IIRC, and some commercially made. I can't imagine why your sister
> > couldn't bring some mayo in - it's a commercially made product in a
> > sealed jar. Fresh eggs, OTOH, won't get past the ag inspector.
> > Nor will a hollow and intricately decorated one. Don't ask me how
> > I know this. Dammit. Also, you might email her at aqis.gov.au and
> > put her name in front of it in the usual format, a dot between her
> > first and last names. -- -Barb, <www.jamlady.eboard.com> An update
> > on 7/22/04.
>
> Thanks so much for the info Barb - it's greatly appreciated. I
> didn't think that there would be a prob with Mayo, but the widely
> travelled sister did - maybe she was just still smarting from her
> frypan experience!!

Well, having seen her reply about it, who knows? Take her word for it,
not mine. :-)
--
-Barb, <www.jamlady.eboard.com> An update on 7/22/04.

> >
>
> Hi Alexine,
>
> I actually work for Quarantine, not Customs (people mix the two agencies
> up all the time!). Customs won't care about the mayonnaise, unless it has
> drugs buried in it <g>, but we will.
>
> Whether or not mayo can come in will depend on the egg content. The best
> place to look to check out our requirements is on the AQIS website.
> There's a database of import conditions - ICON - which will help you
> out.Go to www.aqis.gov.au and you'll see a link to ICON to the right of,
> and just below, Steve Irwin's picture.Or I've pasted the link to ICON
> below - though it's a bit long.Enter mayonnaise into the search field,
> and the appropriate conditions will appear, along with the appropriate
> disclaimers etc. Do check, as mayo is not all allowed in and it would be
> a shame to carry it over here only to have it seized.
>
> http://www.affa.gov.au/content/outpu...9A5-6043-42F6-
> 921C59E4C655C6A4&contType=outputs
>
>
>
> Cheers,
> Rhonda Anderson
> Cranebrook, NSW, Australia


Thanks so much for the info Rhonda! I'll look through the site and let my
sister know the results. Sorry for mixing up customs and quarantine
*blush*.

Also, a big thanks to Barb for getting the message through!

cheers
alexine

> >
>
> Hi Alexine,
>
> I actually work for Quarantine, not Customs (people mix the two agencies
> up all the time!). Customs won't care about the mayonnaise, unless it has
> drugs buried in it <g>, but we will.
>
> Whether or not mayo can come in will depend on the egg content. The best
> place to look to check out our requirements is on the AQIS website.
> There's a database of import conditions - ICON - which will help you
> out.Go to www.aqis.gov.au and you'll see a link to ICON to the right of,
> and just below, Steve Irwin's picture.Or I've pasted the link to ICON
> below - though it's a bit long.Enter mayonnaise into the search field,
> and the appropriate conditions will appear, along with the appropriate
> disclaimers etc. Do check, as mayo is not all allowed in and it would be
> a shame to carry it over here only to have it seized.
>
> http://www.affa.gov.au/content/outpu...9A5-6043-42F6-
> 921C59E4C655C6A4&contType=outputs
>
>
>
> Cheers,
> Rhonda Anderson
> Cranebrook, NSW, Australia


Thanks so much for the info Rhonda! I'll look through the site and let my
sister know the results. Sorry for mixing up customs and quarantine
*blush*.

Also, a big thanks to Barb for getting the message through!

cheers
alexine

"alexine" > wrote in
:

> Hi Rhonda
>
> I'm hoping you can help answer a question! In my many years of
> lurking here I've noticed that you work for customs here in Australia.
> Can you tell me, or tell me where to look, if we can bring back foods
> such as Mayo from the States? One sister has a gourmet food store,
> and the other is an international flight attendant. The food store
> sister wants the FA sister to bring back jars of Hellmans Mayo when
> she has trips to LA. Do you know if we can bring them into Australia?
>


I'm sure I've seen ads within the last year or so for Hellman's products
here in Australia. Is the food store sister certain she can't get the mayo
locally?

"alexine" > wrote in
:

> Hi Rhonda
>
> I'm hoping you can help answer a question! In my many years of
> lurking here I've noticed that you work for customs here in Australia.
> Can you tell me, or tell me where to look, if we can bring back foods
> such as Mayo from the States? One sister has a gourmet food store,
> and the other is an international flight attendant. The food store
> sister wants the FA sister to bring back jars of Hellmans Mayo when
> she has trips to LA. Do you know if we can bring them into Australia?
>


I'm sure I've seen ads within the last year or so for Hellman's products
here in Australia. Is the food store sister certain she can't get the mayo
locally?

"alexine" > wrote in
:

> Hi Rhonda
>
> I'm hoping you can help answer a question! In my many years of
> lurking here I've noticed that you work for customs here in Australia.
> Can you tell me, or tell me where to look, if we can bring back foods
> such as Mayo from the States? One sister has a gourmet food store,
> and the other is an international flight attendant. The food store
> sister wants the FA sister to bring back jars of Hellmans Mayo when
> she has trips to LA. Do you know if we can bring them into Australia?
>


I'm sure I've seen ads within the last year or so for Hellman's products
here in Australia. Is the food store sister certain she can't get the mayo
locally?

"Amarantha" > wrote in message
. 1.4...
> "alexine" > wrote in
> :
>
> > Hi Rhonda
> >
> > I'm hoping you can help answer a question! In my many years of
> > lurking here I've noticed that you work for customs here in Australia.
> > Can you tell me, or tell me where to look, if we can bring back foods
> > such as Mayo from the States? One sister has a gourmet food store,
> > and the other is an international flight attendant. The food store
> > sister wants the FA sister to bring back jars of Hellmans Mayo when
> > she has trips to LA. Do you know if we can bring them into Australia?
> >
>
>
> I'm sure I've seen ads within the last year or so for Hellman's products
> here in Australia. Is the food store sister certain she can't get the
mayo
> locally?
>
>
You know, I was wondering that myself - she does currently have Hellmans in
the store - however - for some reason (unknown to me) they want to get it in
LA. Not sure if it works out cheaper or the jars are more of an industrial
size - but as the flight attendant spends so much time (her local Target is
now Pasadena, not Melbourne) in LA, I'm sure there's a good reason . .
..somewhere!!! I know not what my sisters think, just do their research :P

alexine

"Amarantha" > wrote in message
. 1.4...
> "alexine" > wrote in
> :
>
> > Hi Rhonda
> >
> > I'm hoping you can help answer a question! In my many years of
> > lurking here I've noticed that you work for customs here in Australia.
> > Can you tell me, or tell me where to look, if we can bring back foods
> > such as Mayo from the States? One sister has a gourmet food store,
> > and the other is an international flight attendant. The food store
> > sister wants the FA sister to bring back jars of Hellmans Mayo when
> > she has trips to LA. Do you know if we can bring them into Australia?
> >
>
>
> I'm sure I've seen ads within the last year or so for Hellman's products
> here in Australia. Is the food store sister certain she can't get the
mayo
> locally?
>
>
You know, I was wondering that myself - she does currently have Hellmans in
the store - however - for some reason (unknown to me) they want to get it in
LA. Not sure if it works out cheaper or the jars are more of an industrial
size - but as the flight attendant spends so much time (her local Target is
now Pasadena, not Melbourne) in LA, I'm sure there's a good reason . .
..somewhere!!! I know not what my sisters think, just do their research :P

alexine