The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is revising its regulations on importation of plants for planting to remove entries for plant inspection stations in New Orleans and Baltimore, and add an entry for a station in Beltsville, Md. The final rule also updates the addresses in the regulations for plant inspection stations in Florida, Guam, and Hawaii. The rule is effective April 26.
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service announced changes April 23 to Plant Protection and Quarantine (PPQ) electronic manuals. While some changes are minor, other changes may affect the admissibility of the plant products, including fruits, vegetables, and flowers.
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service issued a proposed rule that would overhaul its plants for planting regulations by moving plant-specific requirements to the Plants for Planting Manual. The removal of the requirements from the regulations would allow for a quicker notice-based process for changing conditions on importation, as opposed to the cumbersome formal rulemaking process currently used, APHIS said. The move would also make it easier to find importation requirements for importers and inspectors, by organizing conditions by the affected plant, rather than by the requirement itself. Comments on the proposed rule are due by June 24.
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service announced changes April 22 to Plant Protection and Quarantine (PPQ) electronic manuals. While some changes are minor, other changes may affect the admissibility of the plant products, including fruits, vegetables, and flowers.
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service announced changes April 19 to Plant Protection and Quarantine (PPQ) electronic manuals. While some changes are minor, other changes may affect the admissibility of the plant products, including fruits, vegetables, and flowers.
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is deregulating seven more pests at the port of entry, after the National Plant Board agreed with its proposals to change their status to non-actionable. The eight deregulated pests include (pests marked by an asterisk are still quarantine pests in Hawaii and/or territories):
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is asking for comments by June 17 on whether it should allow importation of oranges and tangerines from Egypt. Based on a commodity import evaluation on the issue for public comment, the agency thinks certain phytosanitary measures would mitigate any pest risk, it said.
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service finalized the addition of 31 plants for planting that are quarantine pests, and 107 plants for planting that are hosts of 13 quarantine pests, to its lists of taxa of plants for planting whose importation is not authorized pending pest risk analysis (NAPPRA). The agency said it made some changes to its July 2011 proposal in response to comments it received, only adding 31 pest hosts instead of the proposed 41 (see 11072813). The changes, which may be viewed (here), are effective May 20.
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service announced changes April 15 to Plant Protection and Quarantine (PPQ) electronic manuals. While some changes are minor, other changes may affect the admissibility of the plant products, including fruits, vegetables, and flowers.
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service announced changes April 11 to Plant Protection and Quarantine (PPQ) electronic manuals. While some changes are minor, other changes may affect the admissibility of the plant products, including fruits, vegetables, and flowers.