WASHINGTON, Nov. 22, 2021 – The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) commends Canada for enforcing the dear plant successfully being (phytosanitary) measures to safeguard towards the transmission of potato wart disease from Prince Edward Island (PEI), Canada, to the US.
“I esteem Canada’s action to hunch the motion of all potatoes from Prince Edward Island to the US,” mentioned Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. “Our probability evaluation demonstrated that this action is valuable to give protection to U.S. potato producers from doubtless publicity to the Federally designated exhaust agent Synchytrium endobioticum, in general called potato wart. We survey forward to working with the Canadian Food Inspection Company as they delimit the infestation and mark the sources so that acceptable mitigation measures will even be imposed and alternate restrictions relaxed.”
On Nov. 21, 2021, the Canadian Food Inspection Company (CFIA) suspended certification of all potatoes from PEI. This decision follows CFIA’s confirmed detections of potato wart in 2020 and, most fair recently, October 2021. Potato wart is assumed to be one of potentially the most serious potato ailments in the arena. It reduces yield and makes potatoes unmarketable. Potatoes are regarded as to be the principle pathway for the disease, and the suspension is a valuable period in-between measure to give protection to United States potato manufacturing. To boot, all feeble farm equipment, farm instruments, and farming instruments from PEI imported into the US be visibly clean and freed from soil. These restrictions only affect PEI and alternate continues with the comfort of Canada.
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