The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service announced changes Dec. 11-14 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 Dec. 8-10 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’s pilot to test “core” non-Lacey Act data in the Automated Commercial Environment is now live and accepting participants for filings under the agency’s Plant Protection and Quarantine (PPQ) and Veterinary Services (VS) programs, said APHIS officials during a webinar held jointly with CBP on Dec. 9. Two other programs, Biotechnology Regulatory Services and Animal Care, are not yet ready for piloting but will be “in the future,” said Sean Blount, APHIS’ acting assistant director for Quarantine Policy, Analysis and Support.
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service announced changes Dec. 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.
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service announced changes Dec. 3 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 Canadian Food Inspection Agency will move forward with new import requirements to prevent the introduction of the European grapevine moth, and is planning to publish a directive in December that will take effect after 30 days, said the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service in a Dec. 1 bulletin (here). Canada will recognize U.S. regulated areas for the pest, so the new requirements “should have minimal impact” on U.S. exports, said APHIS. However, shipments from other countries will have to be fumigated, produced in a CFIA-approved pest free area, or produced under a CFIA-approved systems approach. Regulated host material that is imported into the U.S. for re-export to Canada must be accompanied by documentation that demonstrates the product meets Canadian requirements, and may be fumigated in the U.S. if it doesn’t. Shipments that leave their country of origin before the new directive is published will be subject to the import requirements that were in place at the time of export, APHIS said.
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service will ban the importation of mango seeds and fruits from Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, and Saint Martin-Sint Maarten, it said in a bulletin sent Dec. 1 (here). The ban, which takes effect Dec. 23, will prevent the introduction of the mango seed weevil, said APHIS.
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service announced changes Nov. 23-27 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.
Federal agencies with a hand in regulating trade listed their plans for issuing new regulations in the Fall 2015 Unified Agenda (here). New rules from FDA would amend labeling requirements for animal drugs, finalize changes to food facility registration requirements and continue to implement the Food Safety Modernization Act. Upcoming rules from the Agriculture Department are set to affect genetically engineered foods and labeling of meat products.
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service announced changes Nov. 12-17 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.