[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7 volume 5]
[Revised as of January 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR319.37-9]

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                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
 CHAPTER III--ANIMAL AND PLANT HEALTH INSPECTION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF 
                               AGRICULTURE
 
PART 319_FOREIGN QUARANTINE NOTICES--Table of Contents

  Subpart_Nursery Stock, Plants, Roots, Bulbs, Seeds, and Other Plant 
                         Products 1 2
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Sec. 319.37-9  Approved packing material.

    Any restricted article at the time of importation or offer for 
importation into the United States shall not be packed in a packing 
material unless the plants were packed in the packing material 
immediately prior to shipment; such packing material is free from sand, 
soil, or earth (except for sand designated below); has not been used 
previously as packing material or otherwise; and is listed below:

Baked or expanded clay pellets.
Buckwheat hulls.
Coral sand from Bermuda, if the article packed in such sand is 
accompanied by a phytosanitary certificate of inspection containing an 
accurate additional declaration from the plant protection service of 
Bermuda that such sand was free from soil.
Excelsior.
Exfoliated vermiculite.
Ground cork.
Ground peat.
Ground rubber.
Paper.
Perlite.
Polymer stabilized cellulose.
Quarry gravel.
Rock wool.
Sawdust.
Shavings--wood or cork.
Sphagnum moss.
Stockosorb superabsorbent polymer
Vegetable fiber when free of pulp, including coconut fiber and Osmunda 
fiber, but excluding sugarcane fiber and cotton fiber.
Volcanic rock.

[45 FR 31585, May 13, 1980, as amended at 57 FR 43151, Sept. 18, 1992; 
60 FR 3078, Jan. 13, 1995; 68 FR 50047, Aug. 20, 2003]

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