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MISSION

NIS provides the following pest identification and information services:

• We identify and coordinate the identification of plant pests intercepted at ports-of entry from import and export cargo, passengers or carriers arriving from foreign origins, and organisms from domestic APHIS surveys.
• We categorize the quarantine status of exotic organisms.
• We maintain pest interception data on known and potential pest organisms found during quarantine inspection.

• Ensure identification services are accurate, responsive, timely, consistent, and comprehensive.
• Develop and evaluate the effectiveness of identification services.
• Develop a cooperative relationship and coordinate activities between co-providers of identification services.
• Promote and maintain professional excellence of PPQ entomology, botany, & plant pathology identifiers and identification specialists.

We determine which organisms are quarantine pests using pest risk analysis models to:

• Help prevent the establishment of exotic plant pests in the United States.
• Facilitate international trade.
  

We manage a pest interception database to:

• Maintain a record of potential pest introductions to the United States.
• Provide information necessary to formulate PPQ and APHIS policy.
• Provide information to APHIS customers