aljoud offers new quarantine techniques to satisfy ecologists and quarantine officials
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ALJOUD OFFERS NEW QUARANTINE TECHNIQUES TO SATISFY
ECOLOGISTS AND QUARANTINE OFFICIALS.
Together with the hype around the ozone layer (Montreal Protocol) and the greenhouse effect(Kyoto Protocol), the protection of the biodiversity and the cross contamination by pests must keep our full attention as well.
Goods and people are traveling faster all over the world. The import of alien elements into critically balanced eco systems increases. The fragility of those eco systems and the increasing shipping capacity require exceptional protection measures.
Containers, carrying bulk and packed goods worldwide and far inside the countryside, are extremely sensitive contamination units for endangered biotopes. Until today FCL (Full container loads) and LCL (Less than container loads) were volume disinfected to control cross contamination risks.
Methyl bromide gas, approved and registered all over the world, thanks to its bright spectrum effectiveness is used successfully to protect the biodiversity and to control pest proliferation.Landed on the Montreal Protocol list of Ozone Depleting Substances (ODS), it is threatened with a total ban.
Seeing the necessity to keep methyl bromide as a prophylactic and curing gas for the future, as no valid alternatives are available today for quarantine and pre-shipment (QPS) treatments, our systems, Recovery and recycle and MC-MABU, are providing emission free methyl bromide treatments.
What about ISPM 15?
ISPM 15 fails to give the requested quarantine protection without treatment of the whole shipping unit, whereas the treatment of the whole shipping unit includes the treatment of wood packaging material (WPM). ISPM 15 does not give a shred of treatment evidence as it fails establishing any legal link between marked WPM and the marker. Therefore ISPM 15 is useless as QPS-treatment.
Has ISPM 15 only been written to cancel WPM export documents and to ease its traffic?
Unfortunately ISPM 15’s marking system boosts energy consumption, which is inconsistent with the Kyoto Protocol. Do we need an extra contribution to the greenhouse effect by needless heating of all WPM of the world? Consequently ISPM 15 is dangerous, undermining any established quarantine system, wasting scarce energy, time and money. Why commit ourselves to implement it?
More transport, an ISPM 15 that undermines and weakens the quarantine systems, the loss of methyl bromide with its know-how, practice and equipment, will inevitably increase the risk of invasive pests. Our recovery system will not leave you defenseless when the time has come.
With our recovery system, and MC-MABU, we all can continue to protect our habitat, develop our know-how to deal with future threats, and re-conciliate all ecologic action groups.
Nathan Hunter CEO Aljoud Investment and Development. AID
(Executive Distributor)7 Salah Salim St., Cairo, EgyptEmail: [email protected] , [email protected] www.aljoudco.net