152 BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY AND PLANT QUARANTINE [Oct.-Dec. 
QUARANTINE AND OTHER OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS 
ANNOUNCEMENTS RELATING TO MEXICAN FRUIT FLY QUARANTINE 
(NO. 5) (FOREIGN) 
CHANGES IN FEDERAL FRUIT AND VEGETABLE QUARANTINES 
(Press notice) 
November 20, 1936. 
The Mexican Fruit Fly Quarantine No. 5 (foreign), which has prohibited the 
entry into the United States of oranges, grapefruit, sweet limes, mangoes, 
aehras sapotes, peaches, guavas, and plums since 1913, will be lifted December 
1, 1936. according to an announcement by the United States Department of 
Agriculture. On that date the entry of these fruits from Mexico automatically 
falls under the provisions of the Fruit and Vegetable Quarantine No. 56 
(foreign) which provides that they may enter only when so treated as to 
eliminate pest risk. 
The Department also announced a revision of the regulations under the 
Fruit and Vegetable Quarantine No. 56 to take effect at the same time the 
Mexican fruit fly quarantine is lifted. These changes clarify provisions on 
the entry of certain products so treated as to eliminate the risk of introducing 
injurious pests or of products which may be admitted subject to prescribed 
safeguards. 
The new regulations contain no specific limitations as to ports of entry, 
leaving them to be prescribed in the permits. 
ALL FRUITS FROM MEXICO BROUGHT UNDER QUARANTINE 56 BY REVOCATION 
OF QUARANTINE 5 
INTRODUCTORY NOTE 
Quarantine No. 56, the fruit and vegetable quarantine, which was promul- 
gated about 10 years after Quarantine No. 5 (foreign), the Mexican fruit-fly 
quarantine, regulated the entry into the United States of all Mexican fruits 
except those prohibited by Quarantine No. 5. Since the said fruit and vegetable 
quarantine contains prohibitive as well as restrictive features, Quarantine No. 5 
is unnecessary. 
The following revocation of Quarantine No. 5 automatically places the fruits 
that were named in that quarantine under the provisions of Quarantine No. 56 ; 
however, under the latter quarantine these fruits will continue to be prohibited 
entry except when so treated as to eliminate pest risk. 
Lee A. Strong, 
Chief, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine. 
NOTICE OF LIFTING OF MEXICAN FRUIT FLY QUARANTINE (FOREIGN) 
Under the authority of the Plant Quarantine Act of August 20, 1912 (37 Stat. 
315), as amended, I, R. G. Tugwell, Acting Secretary of Agriculture, do hereby 
revoke notice of Quarantine No. 5 (foreign), Mexican fruit fly, promulgated 
January 15, 1913, and its amendment no. 1, of February S. 1913 ; such revoca- 
tion to become effective December 1, 1936. 
Done at the city of Washington this 14th day of November 1936. 
Witness my hand and the seal of the United States Department of Agriculture. 
[seal] R. G. Tugwell, 
Acting Secretary of Agriculture. 
