Mangos and avocados in Mexico are subject to periodic inspections by U.S. health safety inspectors in order to facilitate their export to the United States.
In order to export avocados and mangos to the United States, U.S. health safety inspectors are progressively resuming their inspections of these commodities in Mexico.
The U.S. ambassador stated in a statement on Friday that American health safety inspectors are progressively resuming the inspections of avocados and mangos in Mexico, which are necessary to export the agricultural products to the United States.
After a security issue in Michoacan state over the weekend that forced U.S. officials to halt the safety inspections, Ambassador Ken Salazar emphasized that more effort had to be done to protect the safety of inspectors.
Salazar said, referring to recent acts of hostility the health safety inspectors had to deal with, "We still have to make progress to guarantee the safety (of the inspectors) before we can achieve full functioning."
The ambassador expressed hope that further progress may be achieved during discussions with members of the government and corporate sector next Monday, but he did not provide any other details.
Due to the growing demand for the fruit, avocados in particular are a major agricultural export from Mexico to its northern neighbor, valued at billions of dollars annually.
The security event occurred in the highly productive state of Michoacan, Mexico, which has long struggled with extortion schemes run by strong organized criminal gangs hoping to make money from the lucrative trade.
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