. government has opened the second, and final, comment period on non-browning Arctic® apples. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Services (USDA APHIS) has posted their Environmental Assessment (EA) and Plant Pest Risk Assessment (PPRA) for the Arctic® Granny and Arctic® Golden varieties, and are requesting public input.This is the second U.S. comment period and comments will be accepted for 30 days, until December 9, 2013. The first comment period opened July 13, 2012 when APHIS posted for public review the 163 page petition requesting deregulation.
