Post-Sept. 11 rules bar Huber Heights, Ohio, woman from mailing Christmas candy.

By Cathy Mong, Dayton Daily News, Ohio Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Dec. 20--HUBER HEIGHTS, Ohio -- Madeline (her friends call her Rose) Benoit has been receiving a holiday "goody box" containing English chocolate bars and bakery confections from her sister in St. John's, Newfoundland, since the 65-year-old left her homeland more than 40 years ago.

Not this Christmas, thanks to the Food and Drug Administration's scrutiny of food entering the country as a result of the Bioterrorism Act of 2002, formulated in response to the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.

New FDA rules, which began to be strictly enforced in November, have caught holiday …