Americans spend more than $1 trillion on food each year, nearly half of it in restaurants, schools, and other places outside the home.1Federal laws give food manufacturers, distributors, and retailers the basic responsibility for assuring that foods are wholesome, safe, and handled under sanitary...
Federal Interagency Committee for the Management of Noxious and Exotic Weeds2003; Rabaglia et al.2008; Trebitz et al.2017). There is no standard definition of a species, either federally or between taxonomists, and agencies apply different standards to identifications depending on their governing...
, which carries out national and state surveys targeted at specific exotic plant pests, diseases, and weeds identified as threats to US agriculture and/or the environment, much of which operates at the state level through the Cooperative Extension System (CES). General and site inspections are ...