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APHIS Establishes a New Sweet Orange Scab Quarantined Area in California
APHIS Establishes a New Sweet Orange Scab Quarantined Area in California
Country: United States
Title:
APHIS Establishes a New Sweet Orange Scab Quarantined Area in California
Contact:
Abby R. Stilwell, Agriculturist, at (919) 323-6296 or abby.r.stilwell@usda.gov and Daniel Murphy, Agriculturist, at (775) 221-9237 or daniel.m.murphy@usda.gov.
Report:
Effective immediately, USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), in cooperation with the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA), is establishing a new quarantined area for sweet orange scab (SOS), caused by the fungus Elsinöe australis, in California. APHIS is establishing a 91 square mile quarantine in the Burbank area of Los Angeles County. APHIS is taking this action because of an SOS detection in a plant tissue sample collected from a residential property in Los Angeles County. This expansion does not impact commercial citrus.
APHIS is applying safeguarding measures on the interstate movement of regulated articles from the quarantined areas in California. These measures parallel the intrastate quarantine that CDFA established on May 29, 2025. This action is necessary to prevent the spread of SOS to non-infested areas of the United States.
The APHIS Sweet Orange Scab website has information on this disease, Federal Orders, APHIS-approved packinghouse procedures, and a description of current Federal SOS quarantined areas.
Under IPPC Standards, Elsinoë australis, the fungal causal agent of sweet orange scab, is a pest that is present: not widely distributed and under official control in the United States.
Posted Date: June 26, 2025, 9:31 a.m.