CUSTOMS & BORDER PATROL, Dol Form

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We are in the midst of COVID-19, the Agriculture Specialist still has to be vigilant at all times. The role of the Agriculture Specialist here at the Port of Dulles is to make sure that the American agriculture is safe. Every country has a specific risk and that risk is placed by the United States Department of Agriculture. There's passengers coming in with apples, bananas from the specific country that may be prohibited and if it's coming from another country, it may not pose a threat. So it doesn't take thousands of passengers coming into an airport or to a Port of Entry. It would take one with contaminated meat product to create all this damage and infection of the American agriculture, like mad cow disease, like, foot and mouth disease. So most of your meat products, for example, beef and pork, are prohibited. When a passenger comes in and they declare a product, the officer will go ahead and refer them for secondary inspection for agriculture. In an effort to identify those passe