date:Nov 27, 2013
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has concluded that focusing on the trade of plants intended for planting and on the presence of infective insects in plant consignments would be the most effective ways of limiting the spread of the bacteria Xylella fastidiosa that has recently been detected in Southern Italy, the first outbreak of its kind in the European Union.
Transmitted by certain types of sap-sucking hopper insects, the bacteria X. fastidiosa, has been identified in the current di