Biodiversity Information Projects of the World

Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Regulated Pest List

Project Website

http://www.invasivespecies.org/NewInitiatives.html

Project Description

The Regulated Pest List (RPL) provides focus to APHIS' safeguarding activities, including inspection of commodities for pests in its pre-clearance programs and at US ports-of-entry, surveys for exotic pests, methods for pest risk mitigation, and pest eradication programs. The list largely was derived from pests identified in Title 7, Code of Federal Regulations, Parts 300-399. The list was updated to reflect recent taxonomic nomenclature and pest status. APHIS continually detects threatening new pests through its inspection and survey activities. In addition, due to changes in pest status or new information, certain pests detected through inspection or survey may no longer be regulated. The pests on the list were a known threat at the time the list was posted at this Internet site. Therefore, the RPL does not include all pests for which APHIS would necessarily take action.

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Project Type

Data Aggregator

Project Language

English

Key Inputs

Listing of pests comes from Federal Regulations, Title 7, Parts 300-399

Key Infrastructure

Web site

Key Technologies

CFM

Key Processes

Species names may be considered for addition or removal from the database by sending scientific evidence supporting the proposed change to the address specified in the Internet site.

Geographic Scope

National - United States of America

Taxonomic Scope

Species - All regulated pest species

Comments

Under the Information Management System for Invasive Species - and two other databases are also there (Federal Noxious Weeds and North American Non-Indigenous Arthropod Database)

Record Status

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