P.E.I. potato exports to U.S. resuming effective immediately: minister
CBC
Exports of Prince Edward Island table-stock potatoes to the United States are resuming effective immediately.
The United States Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) amended its requirements for the importation of table potatoes from P.E.I. on Friday.
The news comes following an announcement from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency last week indicating the agency would be lifting its ban on exporting P.E.I. table or eating potatoes — but not seed or processing potatoes — with conditions.
The CFIA said the U.S. would require P.E.I. potatoes, as well as the seed potatoes used to produce them, "originate from fields not known to be infested with potato wart or associated with known infestations."
Other conditions state that P.E.I. potatoes must be:
Shipments of fresh potatoes to the United States and its territory of Puerto Rico, and eventually the rest of Canada, were suspended following the discovery of potato wart in two Island fields in October.
The CFIA halted shipments of potatoes to the U.S. in November, prompted by a U.S. threat that it would act if Canada did not. Canadian officials were concerned that an American action would be more difficult to reverse.
Wart is a fungus that disfigures potatoes so that they are unmarketable and reduces yields, but poses no health risk to humans.
The P.E.I. Potato Board estimates trade with the U.S. would have been $120 million this season.
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