"This meeting was the fourteenth in a series of annual USDA InterAgency Gypsy Moth Forums that are sponsored by the USDA Gypsy Moth Research and Development Coordinating Group"--Foreword.

The Handbook identifies all aspects of Regulatory Plant Biosecurity and discusses them from the standpoint of preventing the international movement of plant pests, diseases and weeds that negatively impact production agriculture, natural plant-resources and agricultural commerce.