FYI :
"a civil action filed against the U.S. Department of Agriculture by Hawaii orchid growers.
The Hawaii Orchid Growers Association wants to block a rule change that will allow the importation of phalaenopsis orchids in approved growing media from Taiwan.
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"The threat it not only economic, but environmental. With this rule change, APHIS would diminish its already strained ability to keep destructive new pests from entering the U.S."
APHIS is the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, a Washington, D.C.-based division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture."
source and complete news story :
http://www.bizjournals.com/pacific/stories/2005/01/03/daily44.html
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