1 - Phytosanitary Resources

Pathways
Commodity Imports
The movement of infested fruit and plants for planting are potential pathways
for the entry of Tuta absoluta into the United States. Tuta absoluta primarily
attacks members of the family Solanaceae. Tuta absoluta was also recently
reported on bean, Phaseolus vulgaris, a member of the Fabaceae family. Refer
to Table 2-3 on page 2-8 for a complete list of hosts reported for Tuta
absoluta.
Refer to Table 8-2 on page 8-5 for a list of the countries where Tuta absoluta is
present and which are currently authorized to export host material (with
restrictions) to the United States. Currently, plants belonging to the genera
Solanum, Datura, and Nicotiana from infested countries are not authorized
(except seeds) pending the completion of a Pest Risk Analysis.
Tomatoes
The detection of Tuta absoluta in tomato (re)packing stations in the
Netherlands and the United Kingdom, believed to have arrived on imported
Mediterranean tomatoes, emphasizes the risk of moving infested tomato fruit
(EPPO, 2009c, 2009g).
USDA–APHIS–PPQ issued a Federal Import Quarantine Order in May, 2011,
for tomato fruit from affected countries effective May 5, 2011 (USDA, 2011).
It states that tomatoes imported from Algeria, Belgium, Cayman Islands,
Cyprus, France, Greece, Israel, Italy, Morocco, Netherlands, Panama, Poland,
Portugal (including the Azores), Spain (including the Canary Islands), and
United Kingdom (all regions) must meet one of the three import requirements
defined in Table 8-3 on page 8-7.
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Emergency and Domestic Programs