APHIS Announces Risk-Based Approach to Inspecting Plants for Planting
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has issued a notice advising the public that on October 17, 2011, it would implement a risk-based sampling approach for the inspection of imported plants for planting. In its previous approach, APHIS inspected…
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2% of consignments of imported plants for planting regardless of previous evidence of the risk posed. The risk-based sampling and inspection approach will allow APHIS to target high-risk plants for planting for more extensive inspection to help ensure that plants for planting infested with quarantine pests do not enter the U.S., while providing a speedier inspection process for lower-risk plants for planting. In addition, for taxa of plants for planting that pose an extremely low risk, APHIS is establishing a Propagative Monitoring and Release Program under which consignments of those taxa will be periodically monitored but not every consignment will be inspected. USDA press release (dated 10/20/11) available here.