02 ncac 48A .1005 STANDARDS
(a) All vegetable plants shall meet the requirements of all applicable state and federal plant pest quarantines.
(b) With the exception of asparagus, onion sets and white seed potatoes, all vegetable plants shall be field inspected within three days of their being placed for sale or being shipped into North Carolina.
(c) With respect to the indicated plants, the following shall apply:
Plant Tolerances
Tomato
Bacterial canker 0
Bacterial spot 0
Wilt diseases 0
Other injurious diseases and viruses apparently free
Root knot and other injurious nematodes 0
Insects no apparent injury
or infestation
Pepper
Bacterial spot 0
Other injurious diseases and viruses apparently free
Root knot and other injurious nematodes 0
Insects no apparent injury
or infestation
Flowers and/or pods apparently free
Pepper Weevil 0
Sweet Potato
Scurf 0
Black rot 0
Soil rot or pox 0
Internal cork 0
Fusarium wilt 0
Other injurious diseases and viruses apparently free
Root knot and other injurious nematodes 0
Insects no apparent injury
or infestation
Cabbage and other cole crops
Black rot 0
Black leg 0
Clubroot 0
Yellows 0
Other injurious diseases and viruses apparently free
Root knot and other injurious nematodes 0
Insects no apparent injury
or infestation
Eggplant
Wilt diseases 0
Other injurious diseases and viruses apparently free
Root knot and other injurious nematodes 0
Insects no apparent injury
or infestation
Onion plants and sets
White rot 0
Other injurious diseases and viruses apparently free
Root knot and other injurious nematodes 0
Insects no apparent injury
or infestation
Asparagus Crowns
Fusarium wilt and crown rot 0
Other injurious diseases and viruses apparently free
Root knot and other injurious nematodes 0
Insects no apparent injury
or infestation
White seed potatoes
Field inspection:
Leafroll 2 Percent
Mosaic 2 Percent
Spindle tuber 2 Percent
PVYN .75 Percent
Total viruses 3 Percent
Black leg and wilts 1 Percent
Bacterial ring rot 0 Percent
Varietal mixture .5 Percent
White seed potatoes must be grown in a certified seed program utilizing a flush through system for PVYN.
Tuber inspection:
Not more than a total of five percent by weight shall be allowed for excessive damage resulting in the following defects:
Flea beetle injury
Rhizoctonia
Pitted scab
Russet scab
Surface scab
Wireworm damage
Insects or worms inside potato dirt
Provided, that included in this five percent tolerance not more than the percentages by weight shall be allowed for the defects listed below:
Defect
Bacterial ring rot 0 Percent
Damage caused by dry or moist type
Fusarium tuber rot 2 Percent
Late blight tuber rot 1 Percent
Nematode or tuber moth injury 0 Percent
Varietal mixture .5 Percent
Frozen soft rot or web breakdown 1 Percent
History Note: Authority G.S. 106‑65.45; 106‑65.46; 106‑284.18; 106‑420;
Eff. January 1, 1985;
Amended Eff. January 1, 1994; January 1, 1991;
Pursuant to G.S. 150B-21.3A, rule is necessary without substantive public interest Eff. March 24, 2019.