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Material Risk Management Webinar.
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have Dr. -- that is the acting manager
for wood packing materials. Stephen
Brady and before -- over to you.
>> Phillip Baldauf:I'm Phillip
Baldauf and as mentioned I'm the acting
national policy manager for wood packing
materials I'm with plant protection and
PBQ.
Next, (very hard to hear)Let
me first take a step back. Help you
understand why the USDA is concerned
with wood packaging material and later I
will tie it into how it relates to I SPM
15. The Mission Statement for PPQ is
shown here. I will read that.
We safeguard U.S. or on the culture and
natural resources against the entry and
establishment environment significant
pest and facilitate the safe trade of
agricultural products. Next.
Some may have seen or heard about a
recent report put out by a United
Nations partner organization. That is
Title, assessment report on invasive
alien species and their control. Among
other things this report said the
estimate global cost in 2019 was grants
24, billion, dollars. The diseases on
packing material is a portion of the
annual cost. Next.
Wood packaging materials could harbor
invasive pest and diseases that we don't
want to introduce in the United
States. There is a precedent for this
thing occurring previously with three
examples shown on the slide. The right
there is an Asian beetle and the long
horn beetle and the emerald ash Borer.
They have cost the United States and I
will talk about them later. There are
other reaso addition to the biological
pest risk that should concern shipers
and folks involved with international
trade.
There are fines. Additional expenses.
Lost revenue and time delays that occur
when shipments --(echoing)(audio
issues)))
>> PHILLIP BALDAUF: (audio
issues)Those
involved in trade, have options
(echoing)Less
expensive. And could be easily
reconditioned and recycled. Which is
part of the reason over 1.6 billion
palettes are in use daily that is in the
United States alone.
With so much trade going on across the
globe and wood packing materials is
associated with 80% of consignments,
(echoing)Plus
the risk to our natural resources from
unregulated wood packaging material is
makes to regulate the wood packaging
material to minimize the risk. That is
where the IPPEC or international plant
protection convention comes in. Next
>> there are feedback on the
last two slides a lot of people are
asking if you could go back the last two
slides.
>> PHILLIP BALDAUF: I sure can.
>> Stephen Brady you were
echoing.
>> Phillip Baldauf let's go
back to the slide with the three
Beatles.
>> Stephen Brady thank you
Phillip.
>> Phillip Baldauf I will go
back to the Beatles slide. Can we go
back.
(echoing)There
we go. Now, the echo is back. Let's
give it a minute. Please bear with us.
(echoing)All
right. You still hear the echo.
Let me try --(echoing)I
will go on. And let's
hopefully-(echoing))There
is the Asian longhorn beating, pine tree
beetle and the emerald ash Borer. These
invasive pest like them, have already
occurred in the United States and caused
expensive (indiscernible).
(echoing)I
will speak about them in the United
States. Later i presentation. There
are other reasons in addition to the
(indiscernible) that should concern and
folks involved with international trade.
There are fines, additional expenses,
lost revenue, and time delays. That
occur when shipments with non-compliant
wood packaging are impacted.
Next, (still echoing)Let's
talk more (indiscernible). And their
involvement in safe trade.
Safe trade is important.
(indiscernible). In safe trade. .
STUDENT: Excuse me, (echo) is
there an echo when I speak as well.
>> PHILLIP BALDAUF: Yes.
Yes. Yes, there is.
>> Lalita Polisetty:it is very
difficult (echo).
(echoing).
>> Okay. Phillip try it now.
>> PHILLIP BALDAUF: Testing.
Testing. I didn't hear any echo. All
right. So let's go back again to the
slide with the three Beatles. beetles.
Thank you for bearing with us. Wood
packaging material in foreign pest and
disease we don't want to introduce
norest establish in the United States.
There is a precedence of this occurring
previously in the three examples. Left
to right is the Asian longhorn beetle,
pine shoot beetle and emerald ash borer
they caused expensive damages in the
United States. I will speak about them
and the impact later i presentation.
There are other reasons in addition to
the biological pest risk in wood
packaging. There are fines, expenses,
lost revenue and time delays that occur
when shipments with non-compliant wood,
packing material is detected. Safe trade
is important for any country. I want to
emphasize the word "Safe" in safe trade.
Unsafe trade in wood packaging material
could damage the economy when foreign
best associated with wood packaging
material introduce and establish new --
anything from mangoes, , flowers and
celery and non-parishable like electrons
come in. Those within trade, have
options other than using wood packaging
material it is less expensive and could
be recycle that is why, 1.6 billion
pallets are used. They are associated
with 80 betters of consignments moving
in international trade, plus the risks
to our natural resources from unregulate
packaging material is makes sense to
minnize the risk. That is where the IPPC
international plant protection
convention comes in. International
plant protection is possible because of
United Nations. Or I PPC. . They are
a multi lateral treaty with 184
contracting parties. The goal is to
protect the plant resources from the
introduction and spread of pest. And to
promote safe trade. Every contracting
party has a national plant organization
or MPPO.
NPPO represents the countries interest of
the health or the -- they are
responsible for their countries i
regulations for plants, plant products
and other items that could introduce and
spread plant pest. They conduct
programs for further spread of plant pest
that entered their country. For
example, the United States is a
contracting party to I PPC. And the
designated for the United States is
USDA, PPQ.
You could visit the IPPC website and look
up the NPPO and contact information for
each country that participates in the
IPPC. The IPPC standards are based on
the best science available.
They provide the world with critical
tools to negotiate sound international
trade requirements. These [-P] stand
arounds provide the consistent approach
that they should follow when regulated
imports and spread of plant pest through
international trade. Once they are
adopted internationally they are the
benchmarks and source for trade and
plant commodities under the World Trade
Organization agreement on the sanitary
measures. Next.
The convention introduce international
standards for I SPMs. As the main tool
to achieve their goals to make it the
global standard setting for plant
health. That is taken from its IPPC
website. On this slide, I will include
reasons it is important to have a robust
program. It follows the country to fall
back on the signs used to establish the
standards and gives country just started
a framework to develop their NPPO.
And following the ISPM's. Offers
protections against unfair claim
practices made against your country.
Next.
ISP M 15 is the 15th ISP M standard and
[O] governs wood packaging material has
high risk of pest. Wood and wood
products and excluding paper products
used to support protecting or carrying a
commodity. This includes the wood
packaging material to secure the
commodity and doesn't remain with the
commodity like a palette or crate
would.
Next.
Wood packaging material that is not
covered by I SPM 15 include process wood
products or thin cut raw wood. Because
these types of wood packaging material
is lower risk of introducing pest.
Next.
What other requirements of I SPM 15.
Stated to be compliant, wood packaging
material must have official mark.
There is a lot that goes into making a
mark, official I will get into that.
Using the debarking requirements is part
of what is required to make ISP M 15
mark, owe fishal. Keep in mind the bark
doesn't mean bark free. There may be
residual bark that is thereafter
rebarking. But it when you have the
requirements on the slide. There was a
time it was not on the ISP M 15. That
was changed in the current standard.
The problem with bark is could
interfere with fume irrigation
treatments and when wood best are
attracted to it even after treatments.
These are why debarking regulations are
part of I SPM 15. Next.
Recall that to be compliant with ISP M
15. The wood packaging material must
have an official mark. They must be
treated by improved treated method and
the program must be runned under the
preview of NPPO. The wood packaging
material methods are heat treatment the
tempt is at least 56 Celsius that is 133
Fahrenheit for 30 minutes. Not any
method of fume irrigation but monitored
ensures concentrations are present for a
sufficient amount of time. To kill wood
packaging material pest. Like, there
was change to the bark requirements there
are changes to these treatments as well.
The total treatment for B Bro mind fume
irrigation used to be 16 hours in 2006
it was changes to 24 hours.
I saw a video, that showed a treatment
applicator that placed it in back of a
trailer that treated the wood packaging
material with the export. After securin
opening the canister, the applicator ran
and jumped out of the trailer and taped
the skull image to the trailer doors it
is fair to say the wood packaging
material in the trailer was fumigated by
meth yl pro mind. It was not monitored.
The wood packaging material would not
qualify for the mark. There is other
approved treatment methods that are
dialected heat abbreviated DH. And
fluoride fume irrigation that is SF.
These had not had wide acceptance. I
mean, by that is even though the IPPC has
approve treatments individually NPPOs
still have their independence to accept
and adopt what the IPPC approved. In
this case, many NPPOs including PPQ in
the United States, has not formerly
accepted key and fluoride treatments.
They respect each country to make the
decision.
Next. Examples of wood packaging
material include but not limited to,
palettes, bracing, and crates that are
shown here. Skins and palette colors
and containers and box cases and bins
and reals and drums. Load boards and
Dunnage. Next.
Official components of the ISP M 15
standard for the mark are shown here.
And keep in mind, that no additional
documentation or paper certification is
riered. required this is different
from agriculture commodities that need
the certificate. The only time they get
the final certificate is when the wood
packaging material is m commodity and
not to facilitate the transport of other
commodity. It needs a mark with no best
present. Wood packaging material that
is infested is not properly treated
deemed and not compliant regardless if
the ISP M 15 mark is authentic.
The mark has several components. The
IPPC symbol or logo. We call that the
IPPC international plant prevent
convention that is the the contracting
countries. The logo slightly resembles
wheat and referred to a wheat stamp.
XX, signifies the couch country code for
where it was produced. There must be a
hyphen that is the facility code shown
in the example as,000.
Which signifies the facility number that
did the material in the country.
YY is method of treatment. It could say
HT, heat treatment. Or MB, Ment hyl
fume irrigation. It is registered for
each country like a trademark. This
legal registration allows each country a
legal route to prosecute those that may
fabricate their own mark.
Wood packing material marked and
certified with compliance with ISP 15
may be reused. The one repaired or
remanufactured must be recertified under
the heat treatment or method I'll
options. Your Palle te was compliant
you repaired it with a new board that
was not treated, the palette must be
retreated and recertified to be
compliant again. Next. Other mark
requirements are the mark must be
legible. Durable, visible even when the
wood packaging material is in use not
transferable. The mark must not been
hand drawn or in red or orange colors.
And still more ISP M 15 requirements it
must be written within a square or
rectangular box with a vertical line
that separates the logo from the code.
Notice the standards were updated over
time. There were a time there other
information DB for debark was
permissible. That is no longer the
case. I have heard older wood packing
material in use with the DB in the mark
is accepted.
Next.
Shown here are examples of compliant ISP
M 15 markings that could be stamped.
Stencils or branded on to the packaging
material. There is additional
information on this material like the T
P, and fit okay. That additional
information is outside of the borders of
the mark. That is permissible. Next.
Wood packaging material that is coming
into the United States and encountered
by U.S. customs and border inspectors
during the course of inspection and not
appropriately marked or the mark is not
legible is assumed to be untreated by
the approved methods and non-compliant
with ISP M 15. The mark is not
official. The mark shown on the wood
packaging material is non-compliant due
to not being legible. I will go through
the slides quickly. They will show
additional non-compliant marks. Next.
These marks are not legible. That makes
them non-compliant.
Next.
These marks are not legible. That also
makes them non-compliant.
But non-legible mark on the wood
packaging on the left is in the
background. Foreground you could see a
wood boarding pest present in the wood
packaging material that makes it
non-compliant. Next.
These marks are not legible. That makes
them non-compliant.
Next.
These marks are not durable and
transferable that makes them
non-compliant.
Next.
These marks are hand drawn. That makes
them non-compliant.
Next.
The mark on the left is non-compliant as
the IPPC logo must closely resembles the
official logo displayed on the right.
Next.
These marks are non-compliant as the IPPC
logo must closely be like the owe fish
aloe go.
Here are more examples of non-compliant
marks that don't resembles the approved
marks. Next. Here are more examples of
non-compliant marks that don't closely
resembles the IPPC marks. They lack
borderline and vertical line that
separate it from the code. Here are
more examples that don't resembles the
IPPC 15 marks. They lack a border and
vertical line that separates the logo
from the code. Next.
And another example, of the non-compliant
mark due to the same reason. Next.
This mark, is non-compliant as it
includes NT treatment code as reminder,
the approved treatment codes are HT and
NB to lesser extent DH, SF, there is no
NT.
Next E..
The picture on this slideshow examples of
bark and wood packing material that is
larger than the bark allowed. Making it
non-compliant with ISP M 15. Next.
They find holes in the packing material
that is a pest investtation. . That is
a pest infestation that makes it
non-compliant with ISPM 15. Even if it
has a, a mark. They find Frass on or on
the packaging material that is an
indication of a past infestation as
well.
I want to shift gears. Talk about what
could happen when wood packaging
material that is non-compliant with ISPM
15 gets through. This topic is near and
dear to my heart I've been the Director
of The Ohio beetle ratification
program. Asian longhorn beetle was
introduced in Ohio in wood packaging
material from Asia. The pictures on the
right is before on top and after on the
bottom.
They occurred to rad indicate it from
Ohio. There are many more properties
similarly done for the same reason. .
Imagine the impact of property values,
cost for heating and cools and tree and
destruction of life during and after
tree removals. Additional cost is the
cost of running the program for the
beetle ratification that is ongoing in
four states.
Asian longhorn beetle with 200 million
trees removed for potential to cause
more damage than the (indiscernible).
Next.
Emerald ash Borer is another invasive
pest from Asia that is introduce in
North America to wood packaging
material. In some area is it is
difficult to find a ash tree. Prior to
it introduce it was a major component in
the rural landscape. The forest values
the lost to 20 to 60 billion, dollars.
Next. The last example I will share,
is the pine shoot beetle that enter in
wood packaging material. The first
population detected in 1992. The beetle
is capable to damage pine trees. They
impact in the United States is not near
to the extent of the other two examples
of invasive pest I spoke about. In
fact, in 2020 the USDA removed the cure
quarantine for the beetle that allows 20
states with in fested area to manage the
best approach within boundaries. Next.
.
Now, I want to share three important
resources. The first is the direct link
to I SPM 15. The second is USDA website
on wood packaging material. Third, IPPC
website. You could look up the NPPO for
each country that participate in the I
PPC.
Next.
Thank you for your time. Sorry for the
technical difficulties we will move on
to the next presentation offered by
U.S. customs and border. After the
presentation there is time for questions
and answers.
>> STEPHEN BRADY: We will share
a video that the Port of hoot Houston
put together how they look for in
festation and compliance of wood
packaging material.
(non-captioned video)(non-captioned
video)
>> You could see this is a
crate on top of a flat rack that arrived
on a vessel. We will look at the stamp
and condition of the wood. And any
signs of activity. We observed there is
pest activity and you could see, there
is various holes they filled the
gallery. Moving further down. We will
see signs of pest activity here. We
look at the IPPC markings on the wood
packaging material we see the marking is
IP CC. This is a fraudulent stamp that
doesn't meet the requirement for the
logo.
In addition we extracted the pest. Here
we break the wood packing material we
pull it down where we look at it and
work with it. We see larva galleries and
different areas of pest are. Due to the
wind and conditions we will take it back
to the lab for further extraction of the
best that are within the wood packing
material.
Once you identify a pest investtation or
signs, you will extract the pest. That
is what we're doing here. We have a
specialist using his hammer to sblit the
wood to extract the pest. Once you
broke the pieces down off, we want to
take it to a level area that is safe and
you look at it and extract the pest.
Looking at the piece of wood we see
galleries we see inside there is one
inside there we will attempt to remove.
This is shredding the wood. I make it
into smaller pieces. And hope to get
any bugs out. . It is good to work
from a large piece down to manageable
species. pieces. You could see we
found two pest. Another type of wood
packing material we find is wood that
using embracing. It is not part of a
crate it is used to support the
equipment. The specialist look at it
and see signs of pest activity. And you
will extract it from a large piece. On
to a small piece you could work on. .
And at a safe height not over your head
it shows the challenging of working in
the tight space and straps behind you.
You could not get a hammer swing in a
smaller hanger could work or pry bar is
beneficial.
(bang of hammer)(beeping
from equipment)One
thing we will look for a larva gallery
we need to be sure they don't fall to
the ground. We will put it in a
Zip-lock bag and take to the office and
put in the lab. .
>> There you go.
>> The thing nice about this it
works great in tight spaces so you don't
hit your head. Looking inside of this,
, we could see the Brass is fresh it is
not wet. We will take it back to the
lab. We will look under the scope to
extract the pest .
(bang of hammer)
>> These are secondary pest we
find during the inspection for the wood
packing material that is an egg mass.
(bang of hammer))
>> One thing that commonly
happens you damage the larva you need to
be careful you don't smash it so it is
not identifiable.
(machine sounds))(bang
of hammer)
>> This looks good. It appears
to be an .
>>
.
>> I apologize it looks like we
lost the remainder of the video. I will
try to get it back online in the interim
we could take questions from the chat.
While we try to work out this
technical difficulty.
>> LALITA POLISETTY: I've been
looking at the chat the first question
we received was, if palettes are
manufactured and transported around
United States, to U.S. clients, and not
purchased from outside of the United
States, does it require stamps or
treatment? ?
>> PHILLIP BALDAUF: This is
Phillip. I could answer the question.
The ISPM 15 regulations that this video
focused on, are for international
shipments. For domesticate movement of
wood packing material that is staying in
the United States, it doesn't apply.
Good question, thank you.
>> LALITA POLISETTY: Next
question is, wood sheets with more than
6 millimeters, do they require IPPC
stamp? ?
>> PHILLIP BALDAUF: Can you
repeat the question, please.
>> Lalita Polisetty wood sheets
with more than 6 millimeters of
thickness do they require to be stamped?
?
>> PHILLIP BALDAUF: Yes that
would be true about they are used as
wood packing material. For
international shipments.
>> LALITA POLISETTY: Palette
made of particle board, does it require
any heat treatment or fume irrigation.
>> NICHOLAS VAN GORDON: This is
Nicholas the same as Phillip. I want to
mention that the wording of the last
question is when you say a sheet and dub
tails to this example as well. Any
sheet good, that is been processed and
glued back to a sheet of wood material,
that is actually going through enough
processing that no test would survive
that processing. So Melamin and plywood
types of material, about a palette is
made exclusively to those materials I
don't believe that would pass through
the processing requirement and don't
need to be stamped. I'm not aware of
palettes that are made of only those
materials that is why another word is
solid packing tell. Lumber needs to be
treated but not sheets.
>> PHILLIP BALDAUF: Thank you
for the clarification I was envisioning
a sheet of raw wood.
>> LALITA POLISETTY: Thank you
the next question is, what about ship
born Dunage, does that need heat
treatment or fume irrigation? Correction
fumigation.
>> TYRONE JONES: Yes it does.
It is wood packing material anything over
6 millimeters used for bracing that
require a mark.
>> LALITA POLISETTY: This is a
continuation of another example do the
palettes that is made out of scrape wood
do they require -- it says in
parenthesis pieces of heat treated wood
left over from cutting runners to build
palettes. Does that require treatment of
fumigation.
>> Tyrone Jones yes the pallets
itself anything used needs to be treated
and fumigated and the pallets doesn't
need to have the mark. We prefer the
opposites side the minimum it needs to
be on the one side. So the shipment is
not offloaded to sea if there is a mark
present.
>> LALITA POLISETTY: Thank you.
The next question is, does the mark
need to be on both sides of the wooden
pallets?
>> Tyrone Jones it is helpful.
If you don't want to have it offloaded
on a regular basis, yes. Because -- --
the fork lift driver is specific to make
sure the load is showing when the
container was opened.
>> LALITA POLISETTY: Thank you.
The next question, what happens to
cargo if non-compliant material is
found? This is towards CCP.
>> Stephen Brady it is
reexport. Non-compliant of a stamp not
legible or not being there, it is up to
the port. Logistically we could do the
manipulation, when piers don't have the
equipment or the staff or resources to
do the manipulation. Or we've given
exceptions to a company in the past there
are many times we reexport the entire
shipment not just the wood packing
material.
>> LALITA POLISETTY: Thank you.
>> Stephen Brady they are
getting fewer in between allowing
manipulations.
>> LALITA POLISETTY: Does the
compliant mark change is it good from
year-to-year.
>> TYRONE JONES: It is good
once you make changes to the palette
itself. If you are replacing one board
then you mark the additional board. You
replace 1/3 of the wood packaging you
remove the marks and retreating
everything and replacing the mark.
>> LALITA POLISETTY: Thank you.
This is more of a scenario. If a broken
board is replaced, how would you detect
that. This process without refumigating
be the leading cause of all the pest
entering? This is more of a theory.
.
>> Tyrone Jones that goes back
to the repair we mentioned. You repair
a palette you mark and use a treated
board that is in the countries program.
And then, the company that is replacing
it is supposed to put their mark on the
board. You replace two boards on a
palette. You could end up with three
different marks. The mark from the
original Pale t and one for each board
that are applied.
>> We are at time we could not
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