date:Aug 11, 2014
US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) discovered a Khapra Beetle larvae infestation in a shipment of rice from Pakistan at the port of Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Even though the collected specimens were dead, an Emergency Action Notice was issued to the importer requiring that the 43,000 pound shipment of rice be re-exported or destroyed (the importer chose to re-export the shipment). The Khapra Beetle remains the only insect in which CBP enacts regulatory action even while in a dead state.
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