APHIS Proposes to Allow Imports of Fresh Apricots from Spain
The Animal Plant Health and Inspection Service is proposing to allow imports of fresh apricots from continental Spain. The imports would have to meet certain conditions, including: registration of production locations and packinghouses, pest monitoring, sanitary practices, chemical and biological…
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controls, and phytosanitary treatment. The fruit would also have to be imported in commercial consignments, with each consignment identified throughout its movement from place of production to port of entry in the U.S., APHIS said. Consignments would have to be accompanied by a phytosanitary certificate issued by the national plant protection organization of Spain certifying that the fruit is free from all quarantine pests and has been produced in accordance with the systems approach. Comments are due by April 1.