IMMEDIATE UPDATE: FAVIR Database and Fruits and Vegetables Manual 12/13/2017--114

This notice is to alert you to changes in the FAVIR Database and the Fruits and Vegetables Manual.

Effective immediately, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is lifting the Federal Order issued on March 18, 2015, prohibiting certain fruits and vegetables from the Dominican Republic into the United States.

No Medflies have been trapped in the Dominican Republic since January 9, 2017. APHIS has determined the trapping results provided by the Dominican Republic NPPO and APHIS meet the requirements for eradication of Medfly, therefore, APHIS is lifting the Federal Order restricting the import of Medfly host fruits and vegetables from Dominican Republic in the United States. The affected commodities are listed below:

• Avocado
• Grape
• Lemon
• Litchi
• Longan
• Mamey sapote
• Mango
• Orange, sour
• Orange, sweet
• Papaya
• Pepper
• Pummelo
• Tangelo
• Tangerine/clementine/mandarin
• Tomato
• Tuna (prickly pear)

Fruits and Vegetables Manual: Table 3-74 Dominican Republic change footnote #2 has been deleted and all subsequent footnote numbering has been adjusted accordingly.

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In addition and not connected to the above, the following change has also been made.

 

FAVIR Database: 

• Mango (fruit) from Thailand into Ports as Specified on the Import Requirements changes condition of treatment language has been modified

Fruits and Vegetables Manual:

• Table 3-244 Thailand changes footnote #3 has been revised