Argentina: Certification of pomegranate fruit from San Juan exported to the United States

San Juan – In the department of Sarmiento, province of San Juan, the National Service for Agrifood Health and Quality (Senasa) carried out the phytosanitary certification of a new shipment to export pomegranate fruits for “industrial use” destined for the United States. The container, which was packed and loaded in the Acequión area -an important productive sector of the Province- was supervised by agents from the local Senasa office in San Juan, in the jurisdiction of the Cuyo Regional Center, who attended the establishment to verify that the established quarantine procedures will be initiated and the certification will be issued. The United States presents as a requirement that pomegranates exported from Argentina arrive healthy, clean, dry and free of fruit flies. As it is a region that is not free of this plague, the producer must implement a quarantine treatment that eliminates it. On this occasion, the shipment was given a cold treatment in transit. It contemplates that, ...