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SERVICE AND REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS 
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ANNOUNCEMENTS RELATING TO FRUIT AND VEGETABLE 
QUARANTINE OF PUERTO RICO (NO. 58) 
QUARANTINE RESTRICTIONS LESSENED ON PUERTO RICAN FRUITS AND 
VEGETABLES 
(Press notice) 
January 28, 1941. 
Considerable lessening of restrictions affecting movement of fruit and vege- 
table shipments from Puerto Rico will result from approval given by the 
Secretary of Agriculture to a revision of Quarantine No. 58 and its regulations, 
governing the movement of fruit and vegetable products from the Island. 
According to the terms of this revision, which became effective January 22, 
a lengthy list of products shipped from the Island, including many of com- 
mercial importance such as tomatoes, cucumbers, pineapples, bananas, papayas, 
and avocados, will be relieved of existing marking and certification require- 
ments. Unless inspection reveals infestation conditions, there will be no 
return to certification for these products. Some fruits and vegetables, such as 
citrus fruit shipped to ports on the Atlantic coast south of Baltimore, peppers, 
and corn, still require certification. 
According to the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, which recom- 
mended liberalization of restrictions, studies of insect pests in Puerto Rico, 
as well as records of many years of inspection there, indicate that the modifi- 
cation can be allowed without appreciably increasing any danger that might 
exist from the comparatively few injurious insects that may be carried from 
the Island on these products. 
Quarantine No. 58 as originally established July 1, 1925 — because of the 
presence on the Island of the West Indian fruitfly, bean pod borer, and other 
insects — permitted shipment to the mainland of only a few well-known prod- 
ucts under a system of inspection and certification. Several years of study and 
inspection permitted many additions to the original list of products authorized 
for movement, and these were included in a revision of regulation 3 dated 
December 13, 1932. 
The present revision represents still further liberalization. In addition to 
exempting numerous products from the certification and marking requirements 
of the quarantine, it further increases the number of fruits and vegetables 
that may be shipped, and provides as well for future additions when these are 
requested and their movement can be considered safe. 
TITLE 7— AGRICULTURE 
Chapter III — Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine 
PART 301 — DOMESTIC QUARANTINE NOTICES 
[FRUIT AND VEGETABLE QUARANTINE OF PUERTO RICO] 
INTRODUCTORY NOTE 
The considerable fund of knowledge accumulated from insect studies and in- 
spection records during the last decade in Puerto Rico and elsewhere now per- 
mits a still further liberalization of the regulations governing the movement of 
fruits and vegetables from the Island under the subpart entitled, ' Hawaiian and 
Puerto Rican Fruits and Vegetables", of Part 301, Chapter III. Title 7, Code of 
Federal Regulations [B. E. P. Q — Q. 58, as amended 1. It is believed that the 
protection afforded by this quarantine will not be lessened by these modifica- 
tions, the principal effect of which is to remove a considerable list of products 
from the certification and marking requirements. Exemption from these require- 
ments will be continued unless infestation conditions should make it necessary to 
restore this procedure for specific products or individual lots or shipments. 
In addition, fumigation for pod beans and pigeonpeas will now be required ; pep- 
pers and green corn will still require certification; and cert ilicat ion will likewise 
be required for citrus fruits when destined to ports other than those on the 
