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.
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service announced changes May 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 announced changes May 16 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 said it will hold two webinars on May 29 on proposed changes to agricultural quarantine inspection (AQI) and overtime fees at ports of entry. The briefings, one of which will start at 10 a.m. and the other at 3 p.m., “will provide a detailed overview of the changes APHIS is proposing to make to recoup the costs of conducting agricultural quarantine inspections (AQI) at U.S. ports of entry,” it said. APHIS proposed the changes to its fees in April. The proposed rule would for the first time add a $375 fee for each treatment conducted under the AQI program, including those conducted by private companies, and remove annual caps on fees for vessels and railcars (see 14042321). Registration is available (here).
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service announced changes May 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 May 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 is asking for comments by July 14 on a new draft agreement on U.S.-Canada trade during outbreaks of highly-contagious animal diseases. Under the draft framework between APHIS and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, each country would be able to initially restrict imports of commodities that could potentially spread the disease from the affected country. But each would also be required to recognize quarantined “areas of control” once established, and would at that point have to allow imports from non-infected zones. Each country could re-impose restrictions if the disease is found in the purportedly non-infected zone.
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service announced changes May 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 amending its select agent and toxin list, as well as the regulations governing the list, to align it with Centers for Disease Control terminology and make “technical” changes, it said. The final rule takes effect May 12.