The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service announced changes Feb. 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.
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service PPQ’s Plant Inspection Station in San Juan, Puerto Rico, is closing effective immediately. San Juan importers must hire a PPQ-approved fumigation company to conduct required treatments in the future, APHIS said. The San Juan Plant Inspection Station can provide importers with a list of approved fumigation companies.
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service announced changes Feb. 8 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 proposing changes to its regulations on imports of plants for planting. The proposed rule would make changes specific to certain plants and regions, codify existing APHIS practices, and clarify and update some provisions in the regulations. Comments on the proposal are due by Feb. 15.
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service announced changes Feb. 7 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 adopted its interim final rule on imports of horses from contagious equine metritis-affected countries, with changes. The March 25, 2011, interim final rule added a certification requirement for imported horses 731 days of age or less, as well as new testing protocols for test mares and imported stallions and mares more than 731 days of age. This final rule revises some contagious equine metritis testing requirements for imported stallions and mares, and for test mares, that were amended in the interim rule.
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service announced changes Feb. 5 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 will allow imports of Litchi (Lychee), Longan, and Rambutan from the Philippines to the continental U.S., after doing a pest risk analysis that found the fruits can be safely imported. Irradiation of the fruits will be required, and they will be subject to inspection on arrival at the U.S. port of entry, APHIS said.
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 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.
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service announced changes Feb. 4 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.