APS REGULATORY ALERT

USDA issues Interim Rule on citrus canker quarantine regulations
Date: January 25, 2007

The USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has issued an Interim Rule effective January 12 which is a technical correction to its August 1, 2006 rule that amended the citrus canker regulations to list the entire State of Florida as a quarantined area for citrus canker and to amend the requirements for the movement of regulated articles from Florida such that if citrus canker is found in any grove during the preharvest inspection or afterward, fruit from that grove will be ineligible to move interstate for that entire shipping season. See January 12 Federal Register: http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01jan20071800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2007/E7-370.htm