APHIS Allows Imports of Tree Tomatoes From Ecuador

The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service will allow imports of tree tomatoes from Ecuador, it said in final rule. To be eligible, tree tomatoes from Ecuador would have to be “produced in accordance with a systems approach that would include requirements for importation in commercial consignments, registration and monitoring of places of production, field monitoring and pest-control practices, trapping, and inspection for quarantine pests by the national plant protection organization of Ecuador,” APHIS said. The final rule takes effect July 5.