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Destination Bulk Grape Requirements

July 21, 2000

Exhibit A

  1. Receivers of bulk grape shipments are responsible for all of the following:
    1. Collect compliance certification tags and maintain as part of shipment documentation.
    2. Provide collected compliance certificate tags to the Agricultural Commissioner upon request.
    3. Report to the Agricultural Commissioner any bulk grape shipment received from any county with an infested area and not accompanied with a valid compliance certificate tag.
    4. Process bulk grape shipments arriving under compliance certificate tags.
  2. Receivers shall monitor bulk grape related activities as follows:
    1. Conduct an ongoing GWSS trapping (two traps minimum per facility), detection, and pest risk mitigation program.
      1. Maintain records of trapping and detection activities.
      2. Make records available to the Agricultural Commissioner.
    2. Maintain records for two years.
    3. Make processing facility fully accessible to the Department or the Agricultural Commissioner personnel during operating hours.
    4. Provide training to all appropriate staff in the detection of the GWSS at or about the processing facilities.
  3. Receivers shall comply with the following requirements for those shipments received for cold treatment:
    1. Hold grapes at 34¡F or colder for at least two days.
  4. Sanitation
    1. Dispose of materials other than grapes (mog) in a manner that eliminates pest risk.
      1. Steam.
      2. Crushing.
      3. Cold Treatment.
      4. Solarization.
      5. Other approved methods.

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