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North American Plant Protection Organization's (NAPPO) Phytosanitary Alert System #44

Open jhpoelen opened 6 years ago

jhpoelen commented 6 years ago

Accessible through https://pestalert.org the North American Plant Protection Organization's (NAPPO) Phytosanitary Alert System provides facilitate awareness, detection, prevention and management of exotic pest species in North America .

Pestalert.org claims that pest alerts/reports are intended to comply with the International Plant Protection Convention’s Standard on Pest Reporting (ISPM 17: 2002).

From International Plant Protection Convention’s Standard on Pest Reporting (ISPM 17: 2002) accessed at https://www.ippc.int/static/media/files/publication/en/2017/06/ISPM_17_2002_En_2017-05-25_PostCPM12_InkAm.pdf : Pest reports should not be confidential. However, national systems for surveillance, domestic reporting, verification, and analysis may contain confidential information.

jhpoelen commented 6 years ago

While reports might comply with a reporting standard, the content designed to be read by humans. Structured, machine readable alerts have yet to be discovered.

Example report from http://www.pestalert.org/oprDetail.cfm?oprID=730

Date posted: 10/18/2017

Contact: Dr. Francisco Javier Trujillo Arriaga, Director General de Sanidad Vegetal. trujillo@senasica.gob.mx As part of the actions applied by the National System for Phytosanitary Epidemiological Surveillance in Mexico, the shot hole borer Euwallacea sp. and its symbiont fungi Fusarium euwallaceae were detected in urban areas of the municipality of Tijuana, state of Baja California.The National Service for Agri-Food Health, Safety and Quality, through the Plant Health General Directorate, initiated phytosanitary actions to confine and eradicate the pests, which include increasing the trapping network, delimiting the outbreak, removing pest-positive (infested) plants and controlling the vector through chemical treatment injections.Based on this and according to International Plant Protection Convention standards, the shot hole borer Euwallacea sp. and its symbiont fungi Fusarium euwallaceae are considered quarantine pests, actionable, transitory and under eradication in Mexico.