CBP Intercepts Khapra Beetle Days Before Federal Rice Restrictions
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has announced that on July 26, 2011 just days before a federal quarantine order placed restrictions on imports of rice from countries with Khapra beetle infestations on July 30, Baltimore CBP agriculture specialists discovered dead…
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Khapra beetles in Pakistan rice. The entire shipment was secured and will be re-exported. CBP targeted this shipment based upon previous rice imports from Pakistan and other infested areas.