date:Sep 05, 2019
nto Florida - and the relaxing of laws surrounding that - has resulted in a greater risk to Florida growers of pests and diseases from source countries. He explained that a long-standing law was recently repealed which required fruit from counties known to harbor harmful tropical pest to be offloaded in more northerly ports like Philadelphia. They can now, however, be sent to ports such as Miami.
Any invasive pest from tropical countries will not survive a winter in Philadelphia, he concluded.