The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service announced changes June 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 announced changes June 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 announced changes June 6 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 June 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 announced changes June 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 Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service will soon begin allowing importation of female squash flowers from Israel into the continental United States. APHIS’ final rule imposes some conditions on imports of Israeli squash flowers, such as pest-exclusionary structures at production facilities, fruit fly mitigation, and a phytosanitary certificate from the Israeli national plant protection agency. The final rule takes effect July 7.
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service announced changes June 2 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 May 30 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 May 29 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 recently released the Spring 2014 Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions. The agenda provides a rough (though non-binding) timeline for agency regulatory actions during the coming year. Scheduled rulemakings for “other government agencies” involved in import regulation like the Agriculture Department and Environmental Protection Agency include changes to dairy tariff-rate quotas and standards on wood packing materials from Canada and composite wood formaldehyde standards. Meanwhile, the Food and Drug Administration remains embroiled in implementation of the Food Safety Modernization Act, and the Consumer Product Safety Commission continues its work to implement safety standards, as well as changes to certificates of compliance.