USDA-APHIS extends the comment period for the proposal to implement a Systems Approach for the export of Chilean grapes to the US market

The USDA-APHIS published today in the Federal Register (Federal Register) the extension of the comment period for the implementation of a Systems Approach for Chilean table grape imports destined for the US market. The extension, as the US entity clarified, arises to give people additional time to prepare and submit observations. In this way, the new term for the presentation of observations (comments) is extended until January 17, 2023. It should be recalled that on October 17, 2022, USDA-APHIS published in the Federal Register an announcement regarding the opening of comments for pest risk assessment proposals and an import evaluation document (CIED). All this, in order to implement a Systems Approach for this Chilean fruit and thus replace the current fumigation process with methyl bromide that must be applied to Chilean grapes that are exported to the US market in order to avoid the possible presence of pests. “Based on the pest risk assessment and the CIED, we also propose to ...