Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
10/11/2023 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 10/12/2023 06:35
APHIS Posts New Phytophthora Ramorum Risk Assessment
APHIS Posts New Phytophthora Ramorum Risk Assessment
Published: Oct 11, 2023
APHIS' Plant Protection and Quarantine (PPQ) has posted "Risk of Phytophthora ramorum to the United States" which updates the 2008 pest risk assessment using current scientific information on the disease's biology, ecology and epidemiology.
The document is available on the APHIS Phytophthora ramorum web page in the Assessments accordion.
For more information contact William Wesela, PPQ National Policy Manager, at [email protected]
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