Transfer of datasheets and short pest descriptions into EPPO Global Database
All EPPO datasheets and short pest descriptions have now been transferred into the EPPO Global Database. These documents include:
- Datasheets published in the book Quarantine Pests for Europe (1997)1;
- EPPO datasheets published in the EPPO Bulletin since 1997;
- Short descriptions of pests which were formerly included in the EPPO Alert List;
- Short descriptions of pests which are included in the DROPSA2 alert lists for apple, Citrus (orange and mandarin), Vaccinium, and Vitis fruit;
- Short descriptions of pests which are included in the EPPO Study on Pest Risks Associated with the Import of Tomato Fruit3.
All datasheets and short descriptions can be retrieved by searching the database on a pest by pest basis, or by clickling on this link (explore by datasheets): https://gd.eppo.int/datasheets/
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1 CABI/EPPO (1997) Quarantine Pests for Europe. 2nd edition. CABI, Wallingford, UK, 1425 pp.
2 EU FP7 project DROPSA - Strategies to develop effective, innovative and practical approaches to protect major European fruit crops from pests and pathogens (grant agreement no. 613678).
3 EPPO (2015) EPPO Technical Document No. 1068, EPPO Study on Pest Risks Associated with the Import of Tomato Fruit. EPPO Paris [link]
Sources
EPPO Secretariat (2017-09).