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.
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service announced changes May 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 posted revised guidelines on shipments of seed potatoes between Canada and the United States (here). The changes to its 2009 “Guidelines on Surveillance and Phytosanitary Actions for the Potato Cyst Nematodes Globodera rostochiensis and Globodera pallid” include a reduction in the amount of soil sampling and testing that is required to ship seed potatoes between Canada and the U.S., as well as adjustments to the process for releasing regulated agricultural land and for deregulating fields no longer used for agriculture. APHIS says the changes are already in effect.