The cold treatment in South Africa must be tightened, says AVA-ASAJA in Spain

The Valencian Association of Farmers (AVA-ASAJA) denounces that the European Union (EU) intercepted in July the first detections in this campaign of the quarantine pest of the false moth (Thaumatotibia leucotreta) in citrus fruits from South Africa destined for to the European market, one located in a shipment of oranges and another in grapefruit. The organization chaired by Cristóbal Aguado understands that "these interceptions show that the measures established by the EU are insufficient for South Africa to stop importing this dangerous plague to us" and therefore calls on Brussels to "harden" cold treatment (the mechanism that prevents the entry of the false moth) to South African citrus, causing "rigorous compliance with the cold treatment approved for shipments of oranges and that it be extended to mandarins and grapefruits as they entail the same phytosanitary risk." South Africa led the world ranking of pest and disease interceptions in July, with 16 detections, all of them ...