Risk Assessment: Importation of Adult Queens, Package Bees and Germplasm of Honey Bees,'Apis mellifera L.,' From Australia. Qualitative, Pathway-Initiated Pest Risk Assessment

摘要

The Act of August 31, 1922, entitled 'An Act to regulate foreign commerce in the importation into the United States of the adult honey bee (Apis mellifica)' (referred to hereinafter as the Honeybee Act of 1922), prohibits the entry of honey bees from countries where diseases and parasites harmful to honey bees are known to exist. Additional amendments and regulations, promulgated by the Department of Agriculture, extended the Act to prohibit the importation of all life stages of the genus Apis, which expanded the prohibition to prevent the entry of diseases and pests harmful to honey bees and undesirable germplasm. Regulations promulgated under the Honeybee Act are published in Title 7 CFR Part 322.