date:Nov 29, 2018
od season. However, it showed no interest in reviewing its position on CBS as a quarantine pest, demanding full compliance and refusing to consider any reasonable requests for relaxation of the excessive and unsustainable protocols governing the pest.
SA exported over 800 000 tonnes of citrus to the EU during the 2018 season (up to 40,000 containers), yet only 2 consignments were intercepted with CBS symptoms. None of these tested as viable fungi. SA has shown enormous capacity to mitigate the