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SERVICE AND REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS 
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the maimer in which the applicable regulations should be made less stringent, 
whereupon such modification shall become effective. 
This section leaves in full effect § 301.30 [B. E. P. Q— Q. 30, revised effec- 
tive October 10, 1934], which prohibits the movement from Hawaii and Puerto 
Rico into or through any other State, Territory, or District of the United 
States of all varieties of sweetpotatoes (Ipomoea batatas). 
RULES AND REGULATIONS 
§ 301.5S-1 Definitions. — (a) Fresh fruits and vegetables. — The edible, more 
or less succulent, portions of food plants in the raw or unprocessed state, such 
as bananas, oranges, grapefruit, pineapples, tomatoes, peppers, lettuce, etc. 
(b) Plant litter. — Leaves, twigs, or other portions of plants, or plant re- 
mains or rubbish as distinguished from clean fruits and vegetables, or other 
commercial articles. 
(c) Inspector. — An inspector of the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quar- 
antine, United States Department of Agriculture. 
§ 301.5S-2 Fruits and vegetables the movement of which is prohibited. — 
Movement from Puerto Rico into or through any other State. Territory, or 
District of the United States of fruits of mango (Mangifera spp.L jobo (Spon- 
dias spp.), guava (Psidium guajava), and pomarrosa or rose apple (Eugenia 
jambos). and all other fruits and vegetables for which movement is not au- 
thorized in §301.58-3 hereof, is prohibited: Provided. That any fruit or vege- 
table the movement of which is thus prohibited may be removed from a pro- 
hibited status and included in the list for which movement is authorized in 
§ 301.58-3, by administrative instructions issued by the Chief of the Bureau 
of Entomology and Plant Quarantine when evidence satisfactory to him is ob- 
tained that the movement of the product in question, either subject to a 
specified treatment, or as packed and shipped, will not result in the dissemi- 
nation of injurious insects. 
§ 301.58-3 Fruits and vegetables the movement of which is authorized. 
1 — (a) Subject to the conditions and limitations noted herein, and to such 
treatment as is herein or may hereafter be prescribed by the Chief of the 
Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, the following fruits and vege- 
tables may be moved or allowed to be moved from Puerto Rico into or through 
any other State, Territory, or District of the United States when such fruits 
or vegetables are free from plant litter, are marked in compliance with 
§ 301.58-6, and have been inspected by an inspector and certified by him to 
be free from injurious insect infestation, including the West Indian fruit fly 
and the bean-pod borer, or to have been given the prescribed treatment : 
String beans, lima beans, faba beans, and pigeonpeas. in the pod, will be 
certified for movement only when they have been treated as prescribed by 
the Chief of the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine and under the 
supervision of an inspector. 
Citrus fruits (orange, grapefruit, lemon, citron, and lime). 
Coin (sweet com on cob). 
Peppers. 
(b) The following fruits and vegetables are subject to inspection, either 
in the field or when presented for shipment, as the inspector may require, 
but unless found by him to be infested shall be free to move without certifica- 
tion, marking, treatment, or other requirements of these regulations, except 
that they must be free from plant litter and soil: Provided, That if the in- 
spector shall find any field, grove, lot, shipment, or container of such fruits 
and vegetables infested with injurious insects, he shall notify the owner or 
person in charge, in writing, of the existence of the infestation and the ex- 
tent thereof, and thereafter movement of the fruit or vegetable so specified 
shall be prohibited while the infestation persists, unless in the judgment of 
the inspector movement may be safely allowed subject to certification after 
e LT, ?o rl> ow Jl njr r, are not intp rpreted as fresh fruits and vegetables within the meaning of 
§ 601 .oo [B. E. P. Q. — Q. 58, revised] : Coconuts, breadnuts, dried peas and beans, dried 
seeds, dried or cured medicinal plants and herbs, anatto seeds (achiote), gourd (hiizuem) 
cannon-ball fruit (Couroupita yuianensis) , and cut flowers 
