The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service announces the availability of three pest risk analyses that evaluate, respectively, the risks associated with the importation into the continental U.S. of fresh celery, arugula, and spinach from Colombia. Comments are due by October 25, 2010.
FSIS has provided updated information for the export of U.S. meat and poultry to the following country:
The State Department, World Health Organization, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have recently issued the following travel warnings, travel alerts, country specific information sheets, and disease outbreak-related information:
The U.S. Postal Service is revising its Mailing Standards, Domestic Mail Manual (DMM®) 503.9 and 601.11, to permit gift shipments sent by certain individuals of cigarettes and smokeless tobacco to APO/FPO/DPO destination addresses via Express Mail® Military Service or Priority Mail® service with Delivery Confirmation™.
The Office of Textiles and Apparel has announced that it will be co-hosting a webinar on export market opportunities in selected markets in Canada and Mexico for U.S. apparel and textile firms on September 14, 2010. The focus will be on small and medium sized companies in the retail apparel industry. There is no cost to participate in this webinar.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives requests comments on an information collection request regarding the Notice of Firearms Manufactured or Imported. Comments are due by September 23, 2010.
The Foreign Agriculture Service issued the following GAIN reports:
The Agricultural Marketing Service has issued an interim rule, effective October 1, 2010, which amends the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National List of Allowed and Prohibited Substances by revising the annotation of methionine to extend its use in organic poultry production until October 1, 2012, at the following maximum levels of synthetic methionine per ton of feed: laying chickens - 4 pounds; broiler chickens -- 5 pounds; turkeys and all other poultry - 6 pounds. Comments are due by October 25, 2010.
The Foreign Agriculture Service issued the following GAIN report:
The Department of Health and Human Services' Center for the Evaluation of Risk to Human Reproduction requests information about ongoing studies or upcoming publications on the health effects of low-level lead exposure, such as in paint pigments, ceramics, caulk, plastics, and electronic devices, among other things. Information is due by October 7, 2010.