The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is a multi-faceted Agency with a broad mission area that includes protecting and promoting U.S. agricultural health, regulating genetically engineered organisms, administering the Animal Welfare Act and carrying out wildlife damage management activities. These efforts support the overall mission of USDA, which is to protect and promote food, agriculture, natural resources and related issues.
To protect agricultural health, APHIS is on the job 24 hours a day, 7 days a week working to defend America’s animal and plant resources from agricultural pests and diseases. For example, if the Mediterranean fruit fly and Asian longhorned beetle, two major agricultural pests, were left unchecked, they would result in several billions of dollars in production and marketing losses annually. Similarly, if foot-and-mouth disease or highly pathogenic avian influenza were to become established in the United States, foreign trading partners could invoke trade restrictions and producers would suffer devastating losses.
La Pampilla, crime and punishment Peru
In our always convulsed country, the issue of the oil spill produced by the La Pampilla Refinery of the Repsol Group, on January 15, was forgotten news, until a revelation shook us reminding us that a...
57% increase in imports of frozen cooked mussels (half shell) South Korea
As of May 2022, a total of 538,472 tons of imported seafood was imported, with 293 tons, or 0.05%, being frozen boiled mussels (half shell).
The import volume of frozen cooked mussels (half shell) ...
Argentina will become a major food exporter to the BRICS countries Argentina
Argentina can become a reliable and one of the largest food exporters to the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa).
This is reported by TASS with reference to expert...
New measures against IUU fishing and forced labour proposed United States
NOAA has proposed new measures aimed at illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing. These changes address two key tools, the US Moratorium Protection Act and the international Port States Meas...
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