Commodity risk assessment of debarked conifer wood chips fumigated with sulfuryl fluoride from the US.

ABSTRACT: The European Commission requested the EFSA Panel on Plant Health to deliver a risk assessment on the likelihood of pest freedom from regulated EU quarantine pests, with emphasis on Bursaphelenchus xylophilus and its vectors Monochamus spp. of debarked conifer wood chips fumigated with sulfuryl fluoride as proposed by the United States (US) and as outlined in ISPM 28 - PT23 of sulfuryl fluoride (SF) fumigation treatment for nematodes and insects in debarked wood. The assessment considered the different phases in the wood chips' production, with special emphasis on the SF treatment. In addition to B. xylophilus and its vectors Monochamus spp., 22 EU quarantine pests and protected zone quarantine pests, some of which are regulated as groups of pests by the Commissi

SUBMITTER: EFSA Panel on Plant Health (PLH) 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11758452 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature