3021) IPPC: 60 years Protecting Plant Resources from the increasing threat posed by the changing global framework

The future of the food security is threatened: according to FAO estimates, global output needs to expand by about 70% …

3022) Standards Committee: progressing the development of standards

The 28th IPPC Standards Committee (SC) convened from 9 to 13 May at FAO-HQ in Rome. The meeting was chaired …

3023) About / Core Activities / Standard setting / Topics list & Call / Current List of topics for IPPC standards

3024) Panama disease tropical race 4, Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense tropical race 4

Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense blocks the vascular system of infected banana plants, causing them to wilt and die. Panama …

3025) “Plant Health TV”: a video contest by Euphresco and CIHEAM

On the occasion of the International Year of Plant Health (IYPH) 2020, the Euphresco network for phytosanitary research coordination and …

3026) Format of the Phytosanitary Certificates

We hereby inform you that on 1 September 2017 Slovenia will start using phytosanitary certificate forms that are preprinted on …

3027) Potato spindle tuber viroid

Two rows of approximately 100 plants in total in a glasshouse of 5,000 tomato plants grown for commercial fruit production. …

3028) New finding of Diabrotica virgifera virgifera

The first UK finding of Diabrotica virgifera virgifera since 2007. Four adults were found in one trap. The field in …

3029) Oak Processionary moth

The Forestry Commission, working with Defra, London Health Protection Agencies, Ealing and Richmond Councils and Kew Gardens has formed an …

3030) Eradication of Bactrocera invadens in the Groblersbrug borderpost of South Africa

On 21 May 2010 one possible exotic fruit fly specimen was detected in a Methyl Eugenol baited fruit fly trap …