Concern Over Citrus Greening Expands in Southern California
July 1, 2022 USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), in tandem with the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA), is expanding areas quarantined for citrus greening (aka, HLB).
APHIS is adding portions of Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, and San Bernardino counties to the quarantined areas. With the expansion of the Jurupa Valley and Riverside areas of Riverside and San Bernardino counties in the HLB quarantine area, CDFA merged the HLB quarantine boundaries creating a single HLB quarantine that expands across Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, and San Bernardino counties. In addition, APHIS is establishing a quarantine in a portion of San Diego County.
According to APHIS, it is taking this action because of HLB detections in plant tissue samples collected from multiple locations during routine surveys.
APHIS is applying safeguarding measures on the interstate movement of regulated articles from the quarantined areas. These measures parallel the intrastate quarantine that CDFA established. This action is necessary to prevent the spread of HLB to non-infested areas of the U.S.
The specific changes to the quarantined areas in California can be found at aphis.usda.gov/plant-health/citrus-greening.
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