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A Systems Approach to Nursery Certification “Growing Better With SANC” THE SITUATION GOAL OF SANC Nursery certification poses increasing challenges as volumes increase, regulations become more stringent, and regulatory resources are diminishing. The National Plant Board is developing a voluntary riskbased approach to certification to enhance current shipping-point based programs. The goal of the SANC initiative is to develop, promote and implement a risk based nursery certification system utilizing existing state authorities and programs, to enhance uniformity, increase efficiency and reduce pest distribution threats from interstate movement of nursery stock. BENEFITS OF A SYSTEMS APPROACH CONSISTENCY • Regulatory agency resources will be focused to more effectively manage risk of pest introductions and movement, resulting in cost efficiencies as well as reduction in pest risk. • Working together, regulators and nursery staff will identify critical control points and best management practices, resulting in more direct interaction between these groups. • A tiered certification system will allow producers and regulators the flexibility to address the needs of individual businesses and state regulations in support of the nursery trade. Model compliance agreements and other system approach components for regulated pests that include CCPs and BMPs, control scheduling, shipping windows, certification requirements, etc., can be utilized by both industry and state regulators and developing strategies to encourage use of these templates and models for management of quarantine pests. The SANC team is updating and revising the existing model nursery and plant pest laws. TRAINING EXAMPLE: BOXWOOD BLIGHT • Critical Control Points (CCPs) for pest/pathogen introduction • Best Management Practices (BMPs) specific to CCPs Boxwood blight detections in late 2011 created a significant challenge for the production and interstate movement of host material. Regulatory officials received numerous requests from interstate shippers to certify host material as free from boxwood blight in order to meet demands from buyers in other states. A compliance agreement template developed by the SANC team and a set of BMPs developed by industry will help meet state verification needs and the needs of individual nursery operations. • Working with partners to create training experiences that will help states understand and use systems approach concepts in their nursery certification programs. HIS Training 2012 National Plant Board Annual Meeting July 2012, Mystic Connecticut SANC TEAM Core Group Gray Haun TN, Carl Schulze NJ, Aurelio Posadas NPB Compliance Agreements Subcommittee ,Mike Cooper ID, Geir Friisoe, Wayne Dixon FL, MN, Dan Kenny OH, Mike Colvin CA , Sarah Scally ME, Ken Rauscher, PA Dana Rhodes PA, Tyson Emery FL, Tom Wessels WA, David Gordon CO Training Subcommittee Collin Wamsley MO, Gary McAninch OR , Ann Gibbs Model Law Subcommittee ME , John Rochelle TN, Terry Walker AR, Tara Gene Cross NC, Gray Haun TN, Dan Hilburn OR, Spofford APHIS Jeff Zimmer MI, Vicki Smith CT, David Blackburn AR, Mark Taylor MD, Wayne Dixon FL Education and Outreach Subcommittee Ruth Welliver PA ,Carol Holko MD, Karen Rane MD, USDA Liaison – Scott Pfister Tad Hardy LA, Susan Ehlenbeck MO