§ 6464 Pest Treatment Supervision Rules

• •If bugs or pests are found in plants or crops being shipped, they can be treated or cleaned instead of thrown away.
• •The treatment must be done in a way that won’t hurt California’s farms or crops.
• •The owner of the shipment has to pay for the treatment.
• •A government inspector will watch over the process to make sure it’s done right.

A truck carrying oranges to California is stopped at the border, and inspectors find a few small bugs that could hurt local farms.

Instead of turning the truck away, the inspectors can tell the driver to clean the oranges in a special way to kill the bugs. The driver has to pay for this cleaning, and an inspector will make sure it’s done correctly so the bugs don’t spread to California’s farms.