US authorities stop 43 shipments of Mexican tomato suspected of carrying the rugose virus
date:Dec 19, 2019
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (Sader) has reported that the US authorities stopped 43 shipments of Mexican tomatoes in recent weeks, on suspicion that they might be infected by the tomato brown rugose fruit virus, ToBRFV.

The head of the Sader, Victor Villalobos Arambula, said that the detention of the product was unjustified and asked the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to verify that the virus wasn't already in the North American country because the seeds co

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