The USDA’s Animal Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) says it has expanded the huanglongbing (HLB) quarantine in the Perris area of Riverside County by 33 square miles.
APHIS says the new area parallels the intrastate quarantine that the California Department of Food and Agriculture established earlier this month.
This latest action is in response to a positive citrus greening detection in a plant tissue sample collected from a residential property in Riverside County, according to APHIS, which reports that this quarantine includes 8.84 acres of commercial citrus.
