The Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is proposing to revise the import requirements for fresh table grapes from regions of Chile where European grapevine moth is either absent or at very low prevalence (the Arica and Parinacota, Tarapacá, Antofagasta, Atacama, Coquimbo, and Valparaíso regions).
Such grapes are currently subject to methyl bromide fumigation for EGVM and Chilean false red mite, but APHIS is now proposing to also authorize such imports under a systems approach or irradiation for these two pests. Current mitigation measures for the Mediterranean fruit fly would remain unchanged. Comments on this proposed change are due by Dec. 16.
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