Recently, when the customs officers of the three sections of Yangshan Customs under Shanghai Customs carried out quarantine on a batch of imported container timber declared as "ironwood bean board", after opening the box, they found that there were obvious brown strip ant paths on the surface of the bottom wood, and the ground was scattered with wood moths. The customs officer then used a brush to gently scrape open the ant path and found more than 10 live termites. After sampling and sending to the Shanghai Customs Animal, Plant and Food Inspection and Quarantine Technology Center for identification, the result is an insect in the list of quarantine pests of imported plants of the People's Republic of China: milk termite genus (non-Chinese species). Yangshan Customs has now carried out quarantine treatment of the timber in accordance with the regulations.
Since the beginning of this year, Shanghai Ocean Mountain Customs has deeply understood the importance and urgency of strengthening biosecurity construction under the new situation, taken the implementation of the Biosecurity Law of the People's Republic of China as an opportunity, adhered to scientific prevention and control, actively prepared for the preliminary screening of pests at ports in accordance with the requirements of the General Administration, strengthened the monitoring and collection of information on overseas animal and plant epidemics and invasive alien organisms, established a dynamic ledger of quarantine risks for goods from different countries and regions of different sources, and improved the pertinence and effectiveness of on-site inspections. Realize the immediate linkage between on-site identification of harmful organisms and quarantine treatment, and resolutely guard the national biosecurity defense line.
Column Editor-in-Chief Xu Sufei
Responsible editor Yang Linyu
Photography Monday Ming