APHIS Shutting Down Vacuum Fumigation at Miami Plant Inspection Station
The vacuum fumigation chamber at the Miami Plant Inspection Station will be decommissioned on Feb. 17, said the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. The annual cost to maintain the chamber is “substantial,” but 99% of the fumigations performed in…
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the chamber in fiscal year 2013 were done in natural atmospheric pressure and did not require a vacuum, said the agency’s Jan. 15 announcement. Vacuum fumigations can instead be performed by PPQ-approved fumigation contractors in close proximity to the Miami station, said APHIS. Removing the vacuum fumigation chamber will increase warehouse space at the Miami inspection station, and will result in a safer work environment without the need for methyl bromide gas storage, it said.