TY - JOUR
T1 - Commodity risk assessment of Petunia spp. and Calibrachoa spp. unrooted cuttings from Guatemala
AU - Bragard, Claude
AU - Baptista, Paula
AU - Chatzivassiliou, Elisavet
AU - Di Serio, Francesco
AU - Gonthier, Paolo
AU - Jaques Miret, Josep Anton
AU - Justesen, Annemarie Fejer
AU - MacLeod, Alan
AU - Magnusson, Christer Sven
AU - Milonas, Panagiotis
AU - Navas-Cortes, Juan A.
AU - Parnell, Stephen
AU - Reignault, Philippe Lucien
AU - Stefani, Emilio
AU - Thulke, Hans Hermann
AU - van der Werf, Wopke
AU - Civera, Antonio Vicent
AU - Yuen, Jonathan
AU - Zappalà, Lucia
AU - Schulz, Olaf Mosbach
AU - Kariampa, Paraskevi
AU - Manda, Raghavendra Reddy
AU - Selam, Alemu
AU - Akrivou, Antigoni
AU - Antonatos, Spyridon
AU - Beris, Despoina
AU - Debode, Jane
AU - Kritikos, Christos
AU - Kormpi, Maria
AU - Lacomme, Christophe
AU - Manceau, Charles
AU - Papachristos, Dimitrios
AU - Reppa, Chrysavgi
AU - Gardi, Ciro
AU - Potting, Roel
PY - 2024/1
Y1 - 2024/1
N2 - The European Commission requested the EFSA Panel on Plant Health to evaluate the probability of entry of pests (likelihood of pest freedom at entry), including both, regulated and non-regulated pests, associated with unrooted cuttings of the genera Petunia and Calibrachoa produced under physical isolation in Guatemala. The relevance of any pest for this opinion was based on evidence following defined criteria, based on the methodology used for high-risk plants adapted for the specificity of this assessment. Nineteen EU regulated pests (Bemisia tabaci, pepper golden mosaic virus, pepper huasteco yellow vein virus, tomato severe leaf curl virus, tomato yellow leaf curl virus, tomato spotted wilt virus, Liriomyza huidobrensis, Liriomyza sativae, Liriomyza trifolii, Bactericera cockerelli, Eotetranichus lewisi, Epitrix subcrinita, Epitrix cucumeris, Helicoverpa zea, Chloridea virescens, Spodoptera ornithogalli, Ralstonia solanacearum, Ralstonia pseudosolanacearum, Xanthomonas vesicatoria) and one EU non-regulated (Phenacoccus solenopsis) pest fulfilled all relevant criteria and were selected for further evaluation. For these pests, the risk mitigation measures proposed in the technical dossier from Guatemala were evaluated taking into account the possible limiting factors, and an expert judgement is given on the likelihood of pest freedom taking into consideration the risk mitigation measures acting on the pest, including uncertainties associated with the assessment. The limited and partially conflicting information provided in the dossier contributes to the wide estimates of pest freedom. The estimated degree of pest freedom varies among the pests evaluated, with Ralstonia spp. (R. solanacearum and R. pseudosolanacearum) being the pest most frequently expected on the imported cuttings. The expert knowledge elicitation indicated, with 95% certainty, that between 9916 and 10,000 bags containing unrooted cuttings per 10,000 would be free of Ralstonia spp.
AB - The European Commission requested the EFSA Panel on Plant Health to evaluate the probability of entry of pests (likelihood of pest freedom at entry), including both, regulated and non-regulated pests, associated with unrooted cuttings of the genera Petunia and Calibrachoa produced under physical isolation in Guatemala. The relevance of any pest for this opinion was based on evidence following defined criteria, based on the methodology used for high-risk plants adapted for the specificity of this assessment. Nineteen EU regulated pests (Bemisia tabaci, pepper golden mosaic virus, pepper huasteco yellow vein virus, tomato severe leaf curl virus, tomato yellow leaf curl virus, tomato spotted wilt virus, Liriomyza huidobrensis, Liriomyza sativae, Liriomyza trifolii, Bactericera cockerelli, Eotetranichus lewisi, Epitrix subcrinita, Epitrix cucumeris, Helicoverpa zea, Chloridea virescens, Spodoptera ornithogalli, Ralstonia solanacearum, Ralstonia pseudosolanacearum, Xanthomonas vesicatoria) and one EU non-regulated (Phenacoccus solenopsis) pest fulfilled all relevant criteria and were selected for further evaluation. For these pests, the risk mitigation measures proposed in the technical dossier from Guatemala were evaluated taking into account the possible limiting factors, and an expert judgement is given on the likelihood of pest freedom taking into consideration the risk mitigation measures acting on the pest, including uncertainties associated with the assessment. The limited and partially conflicting information provided in the dossier contributes to the wide estimates of pest freedom. The estimated degree of pest freedom varies among the pests evaluated, with Ralstonia spp. (R. solanacearum and R. pseudosolanacearum) being the pest most frequently expected on the imported cuttings. The expert knowledge elicitation indicated, with 95% certainty, that between 9916 and 10,000 bags containing unrooted cuttings per 10,000 would be free of Ralstonia spp.
KW - Calibrachoa
KW - European Union
KW - Petunia
KW - plant health
KW - plant pest
KW - quarantine
KW - unrooted cuttings
U2 - 10.2903/j.efsa.2024.8544
DO - 10.2903/j.efsa.2024.8544
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85183901764
SN - 1831-4732
VL - 22
JO - EFSA Journal
JF - EFSA Journal
IS - 1
M1 - e8544
ER -