i;. vision of Regulation 2, 
' ebrnary 27, 19 10 
United Slates Department of Agriculture 
■URKAl OP BNTOMOLOG1 IND PLANT QUARANTIN1 
MODIFICATION OF FRUIT AND VEGETABLE 
QUARANTINE REGULATIONS 
Ql UtANTINI NO. 56 
[NTROD1 ( lOliV NOTE 
inspection of fruits and vegetables offered for entry from Newfoundland 
during Lod since the promulgation of Quarantine No. 56, tbe Fruit and 
Quarantine, effective November i. 1028, Indicates that Importations 
tables from Newfoundland can be safelj permitted on a basis 
comparable to those from Canada. The present revision of the regulations 
supplemental to Quarantine No. 58 ; s made therefore bo place the entry ol 
fruit- on Newfoundland and its mainland territory of Labra- 
atus as those from Canada, with the exception of potatoes, 
have Long been and still are excluded from Newfoundland on account 
ito wart 
Avery S. Hoyt. 
Actfag <'fii<f. Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine. 
AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO THE RULES AND REGULATIONS SUPPLE- 
MENTAL TO NOTICE OF QUARANTINE NO. 56, AS REVISED EFFEC- 
TIVE DECEMBER 1, 1936, GOVERNING THE IMPORTATION OF FRUITS 
AND VEGETABLES INTO THE UNITED STATES 
[Approved February 24, 1940; effective February 27, 1940] 
Under authority conferred by the Plant Quarantine Act of August 20, 1912 
'37 Stat. 315), as amended, it is ordered that regulation 2 (See. 319.56-2) of 
the Rules and Regulations supplemental to Notice of Quarantine No. 56 (Sec. 
B), governing the importation of fruits and vegetables into the United 
a revised effective December 1, 1936, be, and the same is hereby, 
amended to read as follows: 
Regulation 2 
56 '-'. Restrictions on entry of fruits and vegetables. — All importa- 
tions of fruits and vegetables must be free from plants or portions of plants. 
: g ation 1(6) (Sec. 819.5& I (6)). 
Dried, cured, or processed fruits and vegetables (except frozen fruits and 
vegetables), including cured figs, and dates, raisins, nuts, and dry beans and 
• be Imported without permit or other compliance with these regula- 
Providedj That any such articles may be made Bubjeci to entry only under 
permit and on compliance with the safeguards to be prescribed therein, when 
letermined by the Secretary of Agriculture that the conditio 
wing to which they have been subjected mi tirely 
eliminate risk. Such determination with respeci to any such artt 
• after due notice. 
tricted, a^ to certain countries and disirii-ts 1 i, v special quar- 
antine- and ether orders dow in force and by such restrictive • 
I, the following fruits may be imported from all coun- 
permit and on compliance with these regulations: Bananas, pine- 
rrent quarantine* and other reatrid ellaneoua recola- 
OADle on request from tho Bureau of Bntomolofl ot Quarm. 
