APHIS No Longer Requiring Testing of Pepper Seeds for 4 Pests
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is amending its Federal Order on import requirements for pepper and tomato seeds to loosen testing and certification requirements for peppers, it said in an emailed update April 7. Under the revised federal…
Sign up for a free preview to unlock the rest of this article
Export Compliance Daily combines U.S. export control news, foreign border import regulation and policy developments into a single daily information service that reliably informs its trade professional readers about important current issues affecting their operations.
order, APHIS no longer will require testing of Capsicum pepper seeds for Columnea latent viroid (CLVd), Tomato apical stunt viroid (TASVd), Tomato chlorotic dwarf viroid (TCDVd), and Tomato planta macho viroid (TPMVd), all of which APHIS found don’t pose a risk. However, APHIS will still require testing for Pepper chat fruit viroid (PCFVd) and Potato spindle tuber viroid (PSTVd), and a certification that the pepper seeds are free from those pests.