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Getty Images/d3sign(NEW YORK) The leading global producer of avocados is temporarily banned from sending the sought after fruit from Mexico to the U.S. Despite the demand for imported avocados, the U.S. government announced a ban "until further notice" after a U.S. plant safety inspector in Michoacán the only state with U.S. market access received a threatening message to an official cellphone, Mexico's Agriculture Department Mexico's Agriculture Department said in a statement, according to the Associated Press. "U.S. health authorities . made the decision after one of their officials, who was carrying out inspections in Uruapan, Michoacán, received a threatening message on his official cellphone," the department wrote. Michoacán has been the site of drug cartel turf battles where avocado growers have experienced extortion, the AP reported. Despite challenges with the supply chain and harvest due to COVID-19, the Office of Agriculture Affairs for

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