If you love starfruit, you may want to consider giving your habit a rest for a while.
A friend emailed me this bit from [PDF] from Wednesday's Federal Register. Declaring an "emergency," the EPA has established a "time-limited tolerance" for residues of fludioxonil, a pesticide, on starfruit. According to the EPA, Florida starfruit is being scourged by a fungus that evidently can only be repelled by fludioxonil.
Full Story: http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/7/23/18056/2918