Vietnamese fruits are exported back to the US

Published 2020년 8월 24일

Tridge summary

Due to the departure of US staff from the US Plant and Plant Quarantine Service (APHIS) due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the export of certain fruits from Vietnam to the US has been halted since March 2020. However, the US Department of Agriculture has agreed to send a plant quarantine specialist back to Vietnam to resume work at the Son Son Irradiation Plant in Ho Chi Minh City. In the meantime, the Plant Protection Department in Vietnam has been working with the US Embassy to temporarily allow embassy staff to monitor the handling of fresh fruits for export to the US. These steps aim to restore the normal export of fruits to the US market.
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Original content

According to the Plant Protection Department (Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development), Vietnam currently has 6 types of fruits that are allowed to be exported to the US market, including dragon fruit, rambutan, longan, lychee, and breast. milk and mango. It is known that the important job of quarantine staff is that before the irradiation of fruits (as a rule, irradiation is a must for exporting fruit to the US) will randomly select a few boxes of the consignment to be taken into the quarantine room, cut out and then observed with the naked eye and a magnifying glass for microorganisms. In case the product does not contain microorganisms, it means that it meets the requirements, the new shipment will be irradiated to export to the US. Otherwise, the shipment will be canceled and irradiated. Since March 2020, when the COVID-19 epidemic was complicated, the US asked local employees to return to their home countries, including employees of the US Plant and Plant Quarantine ...
Source: CafeF

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