The European Commission has recently sent a statement to the Brazilian authorities, alerted by the considerable number of detections of citrus canker that have been recorded in containers with limes shipped from the port of Santos, in the state of São Paulo, which entered Europe via the United Kingdom.
The disease is already common in some citrus producing areas of Brazil and, as noted by José Antonio García, president of AILIMPO, it could pose as big a threat to the European production as black spot or greening disease.