APHIS Adds to List of Tomato Pest Countries With Special Import Conditions
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service on July 23 issued Federal Order DA-2014-33 to add to the list of countries infested by tomato leaf miner, it said in a message to stakeholders sent Aug. 4. The new list of…
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infested countries will now include Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Costa Rica, Cote D’Ivoire, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Togo and Ukraine. All except Kenya and South Sudan are approved to export tomatoes to the United States. Tomatoes from countries on the infested list must meet certain conditions before being imported. The order, which supersedes a Federal Order issued in 2012 (here), takes effect Aug. 6.