On May 24, 2010, APHIS updated its PPQ Export Program Manual. This is an operational manual for Authorized Certification Officials to enable them to inspect and issue Federal Export Certificates for plants and plant products. The Manual also provides information that helps exporters meet the plant quarantine import requirements of foreign countries.
On May 19, 2010, APHIS updated its Plant Protection and Quarantine (PPQ) Canadian Border Agricultural Clearance Manual. This Manual serves as a guide for authorized Federal officers at ports of entry along the Canadian Border.
On May 24, 2010, APHIS updated its Plant Protection and Quarantine (PPQ) Animal Product Manual. This Manual provides the background, procedures, and regulatory actions to enforce the regulations governing the import and export of animals, animal products, and animal by-products.
The Foreign Agriculture Service issued the following GAIN reports:
FSIS has provided updated information for the export of U.S. meat and poultry to the following country:
The Food and Drug Administration has posted revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
The Consumer Product Safety Commission has posted staff responses to Commissioner Moore's questions regarding the draft final rule for infant walkers, which were submitted to the staff for response on May 20, 2010.
Commerce Secretary Locke traveled to Jakarta, Indonesia with representatives from 10 U.S. clean energy companies as part of the first Cabinet-level trade missions of the Obama administration. The companies represented were Capstone Turbine Corp., Caterpillar, Echelon Corp., Emerson Electric, General Electric Company, Lockheed Martin Global, Inc., Oshkosh Corporation, Peabody Energy, Pratt & Whitney Power Systems, Inc.,and Prime Engineering, Inc.
The Bureau of Census has posted its updated calendar of Automated Export System Compliance webinars for June 2010, and AES Compliance local presentations for June and August 2010. Several of the webinars are in Spanish.
The Food and Drug Administration has announced a Food Labeling Workshop on August 4 and 5, 2010 in Fayetteville, AR, which is intended to provide information about FDA food labeling regulations and other related subjects to the regulated industry, particularly small businesses and startups.