531) African countries harness scientific advances, digital technology, improve technical capacity to prevent plant pests

Cairo, 25 September 2023. Eleven African countries are taking part in a training on advanced plant health science and state-of-the-art …

532) Potato brown rot outbreak

Following notification from the Netherlands authorities about clonal links to the seed potatoes, a crop of ware potatoes in Cornwall …

533) IPPC Focus Group on Safe Provision of Food and Other Humanitarian Aid discusses work programme

Rome, 16 December 2022. The Commission on Phytosanitary Measures (CPM) Focus Group on Safe Provision of Food and Other Humanitarian …

534) Now available: Translations of ISPMs and CPM Recommendation adopted by CPM-18

The International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) Secretariat is pleased to inform the plant-health community that the four International Standards for …

535) International Plant Health Conference in Helsinki is cancelled amid continued COVID-19 restrictions

Rome/Helsinki, 9 February 2021. On 2 February, representatives of member countries of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), contracting parties …

536) Technical Panel on Phytosanitary Treatments (TPPT) concludes successful meeting hosted by Argentina's NPPO

Tucuman, 25 July 2024. The Technical Panel on Phytosanitary Treatments (TPPT) successfully held its first face-to-face meeting for the year, …

537) Lessons learned and outlooks from the IPPC Secretariat annual meeting

Rome, 28 January 2021. Despite the undeniable difficulties and changes it posed, the strike of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 …

538) Two Million ePhytos Exchanged as Demand Soars

The International Plant Protection Convention's ePhyto Solution has exchanged over 2 million digital phytosanitary certificates or ePhytos from inception to …

539) Impatiens Necrotic Spot Virus (INSV) in New South Wales (NSW)

In January 2018, INSV was detected in lettuce crops at a farm in Elderslie, in the state of NSW. A …

540) FAO Deputy Director General officially opens the CPM-16 three-day annual conference

Rome, 5 April 2022 - The sixteenth Session of the Commission on Phytosanitary Measures (CPM-16) kicked off virtually today. Jingyuan …