date:Nov 22, 2012
blems set in.
Antig said the inspection process returned to random selection from the mandatory checking of 32 to 40 boxes of Cavendish bananas, after pests were found in several shipments in April 2012.
The Agriculture Department successfully negotiated to lift the mandatory inspection after explaining in writing that the pests found in the shipments were not scale insects but mealy bugs.
China is the second-largest market for fresh Cavendish bananas after Japan.
Meanwhile, local banana exp