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Title XXXV AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE, AND ANIMAL INDUSTRY
Chapter 601 FLORIDA CITRUS CODE Entire Chapter
SECTION 89
Citrus fruit; when damaged by freezing.
F.S. 601.89
601.89

Citrus fruit; when damaged by freezing.

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(1)

Citrus fruit shall be deemed “seriously” damaged by freezing when such freezing causes:

(a)

Marked dryness to extend into the segments of oranges and grapefruit more than 1/2 inch at the stem end; or into segments of mandarin or hybrid varieties more than 1/4 inch at the stem end; or more than an equivalent amount by volume of dryness to occur in any other portions of the fruit.

(b)

Internal freeze-related injury, as defined in subsection (3), when such condition or combination of conditions is determined to affect the fruit to a degree equal in seriousness to that described in paragraph (a).

(2)

Citrus fruit shall be deemed “damaged” by freezing when such freezing causes:

(a)

Marked dryness to extend into the segments of oranges and grapefruit more than 1/4 inch but less than 1/2 inch at the stem end; or into segments of mandarin or hybrid varieties more than 1/8 inch but less than 1/4 inch at the stem end; or more than an equivalent amount by volume of dryness to occur in any portions of the fruit.

(b)

Internal freeze-related injury, as defined by subsection (3), when such condition or combination of conditions is determined to affect the fruit to a degree equal in seriousness to that described in paragraph (a).

(3)

Internal freeze-related injury to citrus fruit, caused by freezing, shall consist of any of the following:

(a)

Wet cores or wet segment walls;

(b)

Water soaking;

(c)

Juice cell breakdown;

(d)

Mushy condition;

(e)

Honeycomb or open spaces in pulp; or

(f)

Other evidence of internal breakdown, decay, or moldy condition.

History.
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s. 89, ch. 25149, 1949; s. 1, ch. 81-97.