Alot in the email. Technically plants entering the country go to a plant inspection station and visual and some microscopic evaluation is conducted. If all looks good the plants are released. Sent from my iPhone On Feb 25, 2013, at 1:08 AM, Fierycloud <fierycloud2002@yahoo.com.tw> wrote: > Hello: > > It seems that the England is in the Preclearance program of APHIS. > http://aphis.usda.gov/import_export/plants/… > And there do be the case for "May ENTER any port without inspection" in the > chapter 7. > > But there are still some requirement for the situation. > Such as the pre-cleared species is listed in the table 7-2, is dormant, > with declarations "Copy-certificate of examination for USA" on the > official document, and off course the phytosanitary certificate. > > And I'm wonder one thing. > In Taiwan, the last part of the official plants inspection process is > taking sample and let go. But if the sample shows the infection, then the > plants be call back. > (The same for the bulbs, It must take at least 10 bulbs which shows or > seems have the sign of infected. for the case of geophytes, 10% of the > plants need to be thoroughly inspected, and the time will varies by the > species and the pests. so it may take a lot of time while there are > several kinds of species which are hosts of the several pests. Each > matched species and pest have its own SOP. And thank god the sample size > is depends on the batch of the plants not the quantities of species.) > > There are cases that vegetables and meat imported to Taiwan and found they > are infected by some bacteria after 1-8week (depends on the kinds and > numbers of the substances which needed to be detected), just after they > are eaten. > Does the APHIS only let the plants go after all the samples are tested as > being safe? > > Fierycloud > Taiwan > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/