Five options and 72 comments

Here is the link to the complete rule on the movement of citrus in canker infested regions from Florida. The USDA received 72 comments on the proposed rule, and held to its guns by allowing distribution of all types and varieties of commercially packed citrus fruit to all U.S. States, subject to packinghouse treatment with APHIS-approved disinfectant and APHIS inspection of finished fruit that has completed the packinghouse culling, washing, disinfection, and grading processes. Florida interests argued that political interests keep them out of citrus producing states in this rule, while citrus sources in California and Texas may believe that the USDA turned decades of phytosanitary policy on its ear to allow Florida the access it is receiving. There could be lawsuits on either side of this issue.