PCIT System Down on Afternoon of May 10; APHIS Says Most Functionality Restored
The Phytosanitary Certificate and Issuance Tracking (PCIT) system was down on the afternoon of May 10, 2012, reports the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. APHIS sent out several emails, beginning at about 12:30 p.m., saying PCIT was down due to a hardware problem at the hosting facility. APHIS said the PCIT application was then failed over to the Disaster Recovery site. At about 5 p.m., an APHIS email said all functionality in PCIT had been restored, except certificate printing may be slow. APHIS said the PCIT Training Site will be unavailable until it is failed back to the primary production site.
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(PCIT, which automates the issuance of phytosanitary certificates for agricultural commodities exported to foreign countries, was created in 2005. According to APHIS, thousands of industry users and hundreds of Federal and state duty stations are actively using PCIT, and state and country governments issued more than 530,000 export certificates for individuals and businesses through the PCIT system in FY 2011.)