USDA considers Philippine banana imports

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Thursday, May 31, 2012

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service said it’s considering regulations to allow the import of fresh bananas from the Philippines. As a condition of entry, the bananas would have to be produced in accordance with a “systems approach” that would include requirements for commercial imports, monitoring of fruit flies at production sites, harvesting only hard green bananas, and inspection for quarantine pests by the Philippines’ national ...

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