APHIS Allows Imports of Fresh Bananas from the Philippines
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service will allow imports of fresh bananas from the Philippines to the continental U.S., effective Feb. 7, with some conditions. The bananas will have to be produced in accordance with a systems approach that…
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will include requirements for importation of commercial consignments, monitoring of fruit flies to establish low-prevalence places of production, harvesting only of hard green bananas, and inspection for quarantine pests by the Filipino national plant protection organization. The bananas will also have to be accompanied by a phytosanitary certificate that says they were grown, packed, and inspected and found to be free of quarantine pests in accordance with the requirements.