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APHIS Makes Technical Amendments to Phytosanitary Treatment Rule

The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has issued a final rule, effective September 29, 2011, which APHIS states makes technical corrections to its January 2010 final rule on organizational and procedural changes to the phytosanitary treatment regulations. The corrections provide for the APHIS Administrator to approve treatments that are not found in the Treatment Manual and restore inadvertently deleted text explaining that irradiation can be used as a substitute for other treatments.

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(See ITT's Online Archives or 02/01/10 news, 10020115, for BP summary of APHIS' January 2010 final rule.)