ARS Project: Retaining export and food security of U.S. Specialty Crops: Low-emission methyl bromide fumigations for quarantine and pre-shipment uses (421506)

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Research Project: Retaining export and food security of U.S. Specialty Crops: Low-emission methyl bromide fumigations for quarantine and pre-shipment uses

Location: Commodity Protection and Quality

Project Number: 5302-43000-037-08
Project Type: General Cooperative Agreement

Start Date: Sep 12, 2011
End Date: May 14, 2013

Objective:
Develop novel sorbents, destructive catalysts, and combustion techniques to eliminate the atmospheric input of the most widely used quarantine and pre-shipment (QPS) fumigant, MB.

Approach:
Utilizing a cooperative effort between USDA-ARS, industry, Yale University, Conneticut Agricultural Experiment Station, and U California at Berkeley, research in the context of retaining specialty crops exports that have quarantine and pre-shipment (QPS) fumigation requirements. The team will develop a commercially viable, cost efficient and effective process to contain, destroy, or recapture/reuse methyl bromide and its alternatives following postharvest fumigations.

Project Team

	Walse, Spencer

Project Annual Reports

	FY 2012

Related National Programs

	Methyl Bromide Alternatives (308)

Last Modified: 05/25/2013

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