APHIS Proposes to Allow Avocado Imports from Spain, with Conditions
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is proposing to allow importation of avocados from continental Spain, with some conditions. The avocados would have to be produced “in accordance with a systems approach” that would include: requirements for importing in…
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commercial consignments; registration and monitoring of places of production and packinghouses; grove sanitation; and inspection for quarantine pests by the national plant protection organization of Spain. Consignments of avocados other than the Hass variety would also have to be treated for the Mediterranean fruit fly either prior to moving to the U.S. or upon arrival prior to release. Consignments would need to be accompanied by a phytosanitary certificate with an additional declaration stating that the avocados were grown and inspected and found to be free of pests in accordance with the proposed requirements. Comments on the APHIS proposal are due by April 1.