Federal and state agriculture officials on May 31 removed the Oriental fruit fly (OFF) quarantine in Sacramento County, California. The action was taken by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA APHIS) and the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) after three OFF life cycles elapsed with no additional detections in the area. The action releases the 106 square miles of the Sacramento County quarantine, which contained no commercial agriculture.
On Sept. 22, 2023, USDA APHIS and CDFA established an OFF quarantine in Sacramento County following the confirmed detections of eight adult male OFF from various sites in the cities of Sacramento and Rancho Cordova by CDFA between Sept. 12 and Sept. 17, 2023. CDFA confirmed one additional male OFF from Rancho Cordova on Sept. 19 and one unmated female OFF from Sacramento on Sept. 20.
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