Canada takes steps to resume seed potato exports to US
Seed Potato
Canada
United States
Published Jan 6, 2022
Tridge summary
According to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Canadian officials have taken an important step to eventually resume exports of potatoes from Prince Edward Island province to the US. Canada unilaterally stopped exports from the province in November after the fungus that causes the wart disease was found on two farms in October. That was the first time in 21 years.
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The US had said it would ban all potato imports from the province unless Canada took further action, a move Ottawa said would be difficult to reverse. One of the US demands was that Canada check for warts in fields of seed potatoes. These are exported and then matured in the US and the risk of contamination would be greater if they contain warts. The CFIA conducted a national survey that found that no wart was found in seed potatoes in the controlled fields. According to the CFIA, this was the information Washington requested. The wart disease can reduce crop yields but pose no threat to public health or food safety, the CFIA ...
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