Report of the workshop of caribbean chief plant quarantine officers to discuss facilitation of caribbean intra regional trade in fresh produce

Abstract

In this document explain two protocols were presented at the workshop: 1) that technical team should consist of one person each from the exporting and importing countries. A third independent person may be included if necessary; 2) the trading partners should decide on size of sample for produce inspection. For this reason appropriate size should precede the sample size; 3) additional researach required: - use of methyl bromide without chloropicrin, - validation of the hot water treatment technology, - CARDI to write up results of postharvest treatment trials for distribution, - and, validation of the systems approach protocol.