USDA SETS RESTRICTIONS ON USED FARM EQUIPMENT IMPORTS
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has finalized its regulations for imported used farm equipment from regions affected by foot-and-mouth disease.
The equipment must be steam-cleaned of dirt prior to export to the United States. Dirt particles may carry the contagious cattle disease, APHIS said.
APHIS said that cleaned farm equipment that arrives at a U.S. port with a minimal amount of exposed dirt may, under certain conditions, be cleaned at the port of arriva