Plant health

Agriculture Department USDA agriculture, animal and plant health inspection, forest service, food safety. Rural Electrification Administration, soil conservation service... 

In plant health terms, monitoring and measurement both eost money and are only half way to the real objeetive, whieh is the avoidanee of eost and plant damage. Condition management makes proper use of both aetivities and exploits information derived from them to generate money for the plant operator. Good plant eondition management, therefore, should be the objeetive of materials and maehine health speeialists. 

Conventional alloy seleetion, eoating speeifieation and failure investigation skills will always be required, as will inspeetion serviees to eonfirm the eondition of the plant. However, the phenomenon labeled eorrosion should no longer be regarded as a neeessary evil as it is only a problem when out of eontrol. The eleetroehemieal behavior eharaeterizing eorrosion is also the means by whieh on-line plant health management ean be aehieved. 

When embodied in a modern integrated plant environment, dynamie plant health assessment, proeess modeling and proeess integration provide the means to augment plant reliability, availability and safety with maximum eapaeity and flexibility. 

The pollutants most strongly damaging to human, animal, and sometimes plant health include ozone, fine particulate matter, lead, nitrogen oxides (NO ), sulfur oxides (SOJ, and carbon monoxide. Many other chemicals found in polluted air can cause lesser health impacts (such as eye irritation). VOC compounds comprise the bulk of such chemicals. Formaldehyde is one commonly mentioned pollutant of this sort, as is PAN (peroxyacyl nitrate). Such... 

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has regulatory responsibility for veterinary biologicals, which is exercised by its Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS). The regulated products include vaccines, bacterins and diagnostics, which are used to prevent, treat, or diagnose animal diseases. The Center for Veterinary... 

Neutral interactions are found extensively in the rhizosphere of all crop plants. Saprophytic microorganisms are responsible for many vital soil processes, such as decomposition of organic residues in soil and associated soil nutrient mineralization/turnover processes. While these organisms do not appear to benefit or harm the plant directly (hence the tenn neutral), their presence is obviously vital for soil nutrient dynamics and their ab.sence would clearly influence plant health and productivity. 

A. D. Rovira, L. F. Elliott, and R. J. Cook, The impact of cropping systems on rhizosphere organisms affecting plant health. The Rhizosphere (J. M. Lynch, ed.), Wiley, Chichester, 1990, p, 389. 

Annex I listing is the prerequisite for the mutual recognition of authorizations between Member States, whereby one Member State is obliged to accept the evaluation and authorization prepared by another Member State in situations where the agricultural, plant health, and environmental (including climatic) conditions relevant to the use of the plant protection product are comparable in the regions concerned (Article 10 of the Directive). ... 

European Commission, Guideline Developed with the Standing Committee on Plant Health with Regard to the AppUcabdity of Good Laboratory Practice to Data Requirements According to Annexes II, Part A and III, Part A of Council Directive 91/414/EEC, 7109/VI/94 Rev. 6, 14.07.1995. European Commission, Bmssels (1995). 

Meanwhile, new questions have been raised. Is there indeed a relation between soil health, plant health and human health as expected in organic agriculture Is the quality of genetically modified and hybrid varieties less coherent , and if so, is this a health concern Do food crops with increased levels of vitamins or phenols enhance health What do coherence and ripeness mean in terms of taste and consumer health These questions are very topical, but they are based on vague notions of food quality. A new conceptual framework for these topical questions is needed, as well as better-defined concepts to operationalise these questions. 

Floyd, Joel, and Conrad Krass. New Pest Response Guidelines Huanglongbing, Citrus Greening Disease, Version 1.1. United States Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, May 10,2006. 

Gottwald, Tim R., James H. Graham, and Tim S. Schubert. "Citrus Canker The pathogen and its Impact." Plant Health Progress Online. August/September 2002. http //www.apsnet.org/online/feature/citruscanker/. September, 2006. 

Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, April 2004. 

Connolly, G. 1993a. Technical Bulletin for the Sodium Fluoroacetate (Compound 1080) Livestock Protection Collar. U.S. Dept. Agriculture, Animal Plant Health Inspection Service, Denver Wildl. Res. Cent., Denver, CO. 37 pp. 

European Commission (2001) Review report for the active substance lambda-cyhalothrin. Directorate - General, Health and Consumer Protection, El - Plant health, Brussels, 7572/VI/ 97- final, pp 52... 

Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) sets standards for food safety and inspects meat, poultry, and egg products produced domestically and imported. The Service inspects animals and birds at slaughter and processed products at various stages of the production process, and analyzes products for microbiological and chemical adulterants. FSIS also informs the public about meat, poultry, and egg product food safety issues. FSIS works with the Research, Education and Economics mission area on food safety research issues and the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service on instances where animal diseases impact food safety. FSIS also facilitates the management of US activities pertaining to the Codex Alimentarius Commission, an international organization created by the United Nations, to promote the health and economic interests of consumers while encouraging fair international trade in food. 

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