741) PRESS RELEASE: Stronger partnerships and more investments needed to protect global plant health

Rome, 27 March 2023. Plant pests remain a serious threat to plant health and to food security, the environment and …

742) CALL FOR REFERENCE MATERIAL TO ASSIST THE FOCUS GROUP ON COMMODITY AND PATHWAY STANDARDS

The IPPC Secretariat is soliciting reference materials and discussion papers in preparation for the meeting of the Focus Group on …

743) CPM-18 adoption of ISPMs – no objections received by the IPPC Secretariat

The IPPC Secretariat is pleased to inform the plant health community that it did not receive any objections to the …

744) September 2014: New Report of Potato Wart (Synchytrium endobioticum) in Prince Edward Island, Canada (2014)

New Report of Potato Wart (Synchytrium endobioticum) in Prince Edward Island, Canada (2014)

745) 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 …

746) Detection of Heterobostrychus aequalis (lesser auger beetle) in Cairns, Far North Queensland

Heterobostrychus aequalis is intercepted each year in imported timber (e.g. furniture, dunnage). Heterobostrychus aequalis appears to have failed to establish …

747) Absence of Phyllosticta fragariicola from Australia

There is one specimen record of Phyllosticta fragariicola on strawberry in Queensland; collected by botanist F.M. Bailey from Brisbane in …

748) IPPC Community strongly represented at Climate Change COP 23 in Bonn Germany

The IPPC community was strongly represented at the 23rd Conference of Parties (COP-23) of the United Nations Framework Convention on …

749) Strategic Objectives / Plant Health & Safe Trade / Sea Containers

Reducing the Spread of Invasive Pests by Sea Containers - The IPPC leaflet has been developed on the basis of …

750) SPS Committee Workshop on Risk Analysis showcases IPPC standards and guides

Geneva, 14 July 2021. The World Trade Organization (WTO) held a two-day virtual Workshop on ‘Risk Assessment, Risk Management and …