Phytosanitary

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    concerning the health of plants; especially the freedom from pests requiring quarantine not-comparable

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"A Forest Service researcher, working with U.S. and international researchers, analyzed data on pest interceptions on imported cargo from before and after the United States implemented the International Standards for Phytosanitary Measures No. 15 in the mid-2000s and found that the incidence of live wood-infesting pests fell by as much as 52 percent."

Etymology

From phyto- + sanitary.

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