U.S. allows banana imports from Philippines

Logistics Management

Wednesday, March 20, 2013

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has recently amended its regulations to allow the import of fresh bananas from the Philippines to the U.S. mainland. The agency said these bananas must be produced with a "systems approach" that includes requirements for importation of commercial consignments, monitoring of fruit flies to establish low-prevalence places of production, harvesting only hard green bananas, and inspection for quarantine pe...

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