APHIS Allows More Comments on Apple and Pear Imports From EU Without Preclearance
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is extending the period for comments until May 5 on its recent proposal to allow imports of fresh apples and pears from Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Spain, and the Netherlands without…
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going through an ongoing preclearance program, it said (here). The fruit would have to be produced under a systems approach consisting of production site and packinghouse registration, inspection of registered production sites, postharvest safeguards, fruit culling, traceback, sampling, cold treatment against Mediterranean fruit fly in countries where the pest is known to occur, a phytosanitary certificate, port of entry inspection, and importation as commercial consignments only, said APHIS in the Jan. 20 proposed rule (see 1601190046).