# Mexican Fruit Fly; Treatments
> **Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service** · Interim rule and request for comments. · Published 2003-02-26 · Effective 2003-02-20 · 68 FR 8817
## Document
- **Document number:** 03-4526
- **Category:** other
- **Sub-agency:** Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
- **Federal Register citation:** 68 FR 8817
- **CFR reference:** 7 CFR 301
- **Publication date:** 2003-02-26
- **Effective date:** 2003-02-20
- **USDA docket:** Docket No. 02-129-2
## Abstract

We are amending the Mexican fruit fly regulations to allow the use of irradiation as a treatment for fruits listed as regulated articles. This action will provide an additional option for qualifying those regulated articles for movement from regulated areas.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2003/02/26/03-4526/mexican-fruit-fly-treatments)
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