APHIS Authorizes Imports of Apricot, Cherry, Plumcot from South Africa
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is announcing its decision to authorize the importation of fresh apricot, sweet cherry, and plumcot fruit from South Africa into the continental U.S. effective October 4, 2011. Based on the findings of a pest risk analysis, APHIS states that the application of one or more designated phytosanitary measures will be sufficient to mitigate the risks of introducing or disseminating plant pests or noxious weeds via the importation of these fruits from South Africa.
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APHIS is also revising treatment schedule T107-e in the Plant Protection and Quarantine (PPQ) Treatment Manual to include plumcots among the commodities to which that treatment schedule may be applied and the Mediterranean and the Bezzi fruit fly among the pests it is intended to eliminate.
(APHIS subsequently issued a correction notice (FR Pub 10/13/11), available here, indicating that the correct effective date is October 4, 2011. However, ITT's original summary had the correct effective date.)