USDA considers changes to plant import rules

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Tuesday, February 19, 2013

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has proposed to make several changes to “update and streamline” its rules for plant imports. “The importation of plants from foreign countries has greatly increased in the past 20 years and some of the regulations have not been updated,” said Rebecca Bech, deputy administrator of APHIS' Plant Protection and Quarantine program, in a recent statement. “These proposed changes are necessary to reli...

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