US market reopens for Spanish bell peppers

The US has resumed imports of Spanish bell pepper a year after banning their entry due to Mediterranean fruit fly. Almerian producer organisation Coexphal said the first shipments bound for the US left Spain on Wednesday.

In December 2022, The USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (Aphis) closed its borders to pepper imports from Almería after detecting

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