# Importation of Pomegranates From Chile Under a Systems Approach
> **Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service** · Final rule. · Published 2012-04-17 · Effective 2012-05-17 · 77 FR 22663
## Document
- **Document number:** 2012-9184
- **Category:** trade
- **Sub-agency:** Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
- **Federal Register citation:** 77 FR 22663
- **CFR reference:** 7 CFR 319
- **Publication date:** 2012-04-17
- **Effective date:** 2012-05-17
- **USDA docket:** Docket No. APHIS-2010-0024
## Abstract

We are amending the fruits and vegetables regulations to allow the importation into the continental United States of pomegranates from Chile, subject to a systems approach. Under this systems approach, the fruit would have to be grown in a place of production that is registered with the national plant protection organization of Chile and certified as having a low prevalence of Brevipalpus chilensis. The fruit would have to undergo pre-harvest sampling at the registered production site. Following post-harvest processing, the fruit would have to be inspected in Chile at an approved inspection site. Each consignment of fruit would have to be accompanied by a phytosanitary certificate with an additional declaration stating that the fruit had been found free of Brevipalpus chilensis based on field and packinghouse inspections. This action will allow for the safe importation of fresh pomegranates from Chile using mitigation measures other than fumigation with methyl bromide.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2012/04/17/2012-9184/importation-of-pomegranates-from-chile-under-a-systems-approach)
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