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Recently, a Chicago CBP Agriculture Specialist K-9 team made an important prohibited fruit interception. The prohibited items were intercepted in a passenger's hand-carried and checked luggage by the AQI Specialist (Canine) Kim Der-Yeghiayan and her partner, Saint.The 22 pounds of plant items and 1,482 individual fruits and vegetables were: - 1 orange peel,
- 11 mangoes,
- 2 soursops,
- 8 pounds of fresh lotus stems,
- 3 pounds of fresh pandanus leaves,
- 6 pounds of fresh sensitive plant,
- 2 pounds of fresh edible flowers,
- 3 pounds of Szechuan peppercorns,
- 32 cherimoyas,
- 156 mangosteens,
- 16 peppers,
- 395 rambutans,
- 541 loquats,
- 170 longens, and
- 159 Vietnamese potatoes.
| | Photo Credit: Kimberly A. Carton |
| The fuzzy white spots on the cherimoyas are the mealy bugs.
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The passenger was traveling from Vietnam on Korean Airlines to Glendale Heights, IL. Several quarantine significant insects in the mealy bug family were intercepted in and on the prohibited fruit. The prohibited items were all seized and destroyed. EC |
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