Page 95 - 2018 Annual Report Council of Agriculture, Executive Yuan

Annual Report 2018 Council of Agriculture, Executive Yuan Products shipped by sea that require on-site inspection have those inspections conducted in a centralized area. (5) Preventing invasion by major diseases and insect pests from abroad The COA amended the regulations governing inspection and quarantine for the importation of animals, plants, and their products in response to the international epidemic status. We conducted quarantine inspection on 213,962 batches of plants and their products. Our 47 quarantine detector-dog teams intercepted over 61,000 batches of illegal agricultural products, totaling 70 metric tons. Also, the COA destroyed 371 smuggled live poultry birds, 474 smuggled fertilized eggs, and 1.8 metric tons of smuggled livestock and poultry products. The COA dispatched staff to Turkey to conduct verification of (i) production sites and (ii) the effectiveness of the proposed quarantine treatment, for cherries. We also conducted our annual quarantine audit in production areas in the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, France, Chile, and South Africa (for apples), Japan (for fresh fruits that can play host to the peach fruit moth), Thailand (for betelnuts), Vietnam (for white-flesh dragon fruits), mainland China and Japan (for pear scions), the Netherlands and Chile (for lily bulbs), the Netherlands (for anthurium nursery stock), and Australia (for carrots). In addition the COA dispatched staff to France, the US, Paraguay, Japan, Chile, and Honduras to conduct audits of meat products. 93