Currently, table grapes from Chile into the United States of America must be fumigated with methyl bromide to mitigate for the Chilean false red mite, Brevipalpus chilensis, and the European Grapevine Moth, Lobesia botrana. APHIS is proposing that table grapes from areas in which the...
In November 2021 USDA-APHIS authorized the importation of fresh pomelo from Thailand for the first time in 15 years with irradiation at a minimum dose of 400 Gy as a condition. Among the more than 30 Thai pomelo cultivars in Thailand, the green skin Thongdee with...
The First International Phytosanitary Irradiation Forum held in Bangkok on 8-9 November 2022 during the 20th International Meeting on Radiation Processing was attended by participants from about 20 countries. Five sessions of one hour and a half each addressed a broad range of topics: Commercial Trade...