Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller is urging all Texans to exercise extreme caution if they receive unsolicited packages containing unknown seeds or liquids.
The Texas Ag Department has recently been alerted to a mystery package delivered to Clute, Texas, containing unidentified seeds and a liquid container sent unsolicited from China. “We’re asking you to take this matter seriously,” Commissioner Miller stressed. “Receiving any unsolicited liquid or chemical at your doorstep poses a significant risk to the health of you and your family.”
He also says Texas residents cannot allow unidentified seeds to enter Texas. If they are invasive species and get planted, they will substantially harm the Texas agriculture industry. The Texas Ag Department promptly forwarded the package and its contents to the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service for thorough identification and testing. People who do get a foreign package containing seeds should never open it.
