APHIS Revises Guidelines on U.S.-Canada Potato Trade
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…
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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.