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APHIS Updates Plant Protection and Quarantine (PPQ) Manuals for Feb 6

The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has updated the following PPQ electronic manuals through February 6, 2012 (since the last update dated February 2, 2012):

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  • Manual for Agricultural Clearance. The online version of the Manual for Agricultural Clearance has been revised to add McCarran International Airport, Las Vegas, NV, to the list of airports approved by USDA to remove regulated garbage. (02/06/2012) (here)
  • Seeds Not for Planting Manual. The online version of the Seeds Not for Planting Manual has been updated: 1) Table 3-9, Page 3-12 and Table 3-11, Page 3-13: Deleted Jacob's tears and added Job's tears 2) Table 3-13, Page 3-14: Added an import permit requirement and consignment destination 3) Table 3-34, Page 3-39: Corrected a facility's certification end date (02/06/2012) (here)
  • CITES I-II-III Timber Species Manual. The online version of the CITES I-II-III Timber Species Manual has been updated: 1) Pages 2-5 through 2-9: Added new Dalbergia and Diospyros listings 2)Pages 2-12 through 2-15, Figure 2-3: Added new Dalbergia and Diospyros listings and common names 3) Pages 2-17 through 2-32, Table 2-1: Added new Dalbergia and Diospyros listings and a footnote 4) Pages 2-49 through 2-57 and 2-71 through 2-108, Table 2-4: Added the new Dalbergia and Diospyros listings and required documents for imports 5) Page 3-5: Updated number of Appendix III species 6) Pages 3-6 through 3-10: Added new Dalbergia and Diospyros listings 7) Pages 3-13 through 3-16, Figure 3-3: Added new Dalbergia and Diospyros listings and common names 8) Pages 3-21 through 3-30, Table 3-1: Added new Dalbergia and Diospyros listings and a footnote 9) Pages 3-49 through 3-56 and 3-59 through 3-80, Table 3-4: Added the new Dalbergia and Diospyros listings and required documents for re-exports 10) Page 2-4: Updated number of Appendix III species (02/06/2012) (here)

Detailed list of changes for each available by emailing documents@brokerpower.com.