APHIS Amends Provisions on Inspection of Imports of Clementines from Spain
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service issued a final rule, effective May 16, 2012, amending the regulations governing the importation of clementines from Spain by removing from the regulations the number of clementines per consignment intended for export to the U.S. that are required to be sampled by APHIS inspectors. In place of this number, the regulations will say that inspectors will cut and inspect a sample of clementines determined by APHIS.
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According to APHIS, by removing from the regulations the number of clementines per consignment from Spain to be sampled, it will have the flexibility to respond to changing risk levels while continuing to provide protection against the introduction of quarantine pests.
(See ITT's Online Archives 10122808 for summary of APHIS' issuance of the December 2010 proposed rule to amend Spanish clementine inspection provisions, adopted without change.)
APHIS Contact -- Paul McGowan (301) 851-2312