APHIS Updates PPQ Manuals for April 27
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service issued emails April 27, 2012, announcing changes to some Plant Protection and Quarantine (PPQ) electronic manuals. While some changes are minor, other changes may affect the admissibility of the plant products, including fruits, vegetables, and flowers.
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Seeds Not for Planting Manual: The Seeds Not for Planting Manual (here) was updated, transmittal 04/2012-45, to change a treatment number, to add a statement, to change a certification end date, to update phone numbers, and to remove a form number. Revisions, indicated by a black change bar in the left margin of each revised page, are as follows:
Page 1-15: Added new PPQ Import Services Customer Support phone numbers Pages 2-14, 3-15, 3-16: Corrected the treatment number, added a link to Treatment Manual, and added a statement not to exceed label rate for the commodity Page 3-38: Changed the certification end date Page A-11: Deleted an obsolete form number
The lists of figures and tables and the index also was updated.
FAVIR & Fruits and Vegetables Manual: FAVIR (here) and the Fruits and Vegetables Manual (here) were revised. There were several reasons for the revision:
- Update the cold treatment verification procedures
- Revise the import requirements for banana fruit from various African countries. Consignments are not authorized entry into the U.S. because program requirements are not operational. Import permits will not be issued. The African countries are: Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Congo, Cote d' Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo.
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