The Florida Senate

601.89  Citrus fruit; when damaged by freezing.--

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