Re: seed import/export regs

**Margaret Lauterbach melauter@earthlink.net>**

The USDA published their intent to enforce old regulations last July, in 
the Federal Register.  The url is very long, and I think I've deleted 
it.  I've never been able to find their tweaks and changes.  I think this 
is a political situation, in which you have very aggressive  people 
domineering USDA personnel to exert their extremist views on clerks who 
don't have time or knowledge to examine and detect disease on plant 
material and they certainly don't know whether seeds may carry disease that 
could threaten anything but the seed's own plant. It's easier just to ban 
everything without a phytosanitary certificate.  And as the rainforests 
dwindle and medical researchers moan they haven't examined everything yet, 
and the public waits for miracle cures, nobody stops to wonder how many of 
those countries that are home to rainforests have the facilities to issue 
phytosanitary certificates. Not even Mexico does.  Margaret Lauterbach

> >>>
> >Thank you, Carlo. It scorches me, though. Canadian seed companies lose a
> >market, and U.S. citizens lose many seed sources.  Margaret L
>
>It's actually worse than all that. I've traded seed with people around
>the
>world for years--and won't be able to do it anymore.
> >>>
>
>Where is the original post in this thread that describes the seed
>import/export regulation? Maybe someone could point me to website or
>repost the original article.
>
>Tnx,
>
>LL
>
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