State Laws Regulating Honey Harvesting/Bottling

[NuclearDruid]

Exemption in Illinois since 2010.

http://www.ilsba.com/uploads/1/0/6/4...r_bulletin.pdf

ND

[NasalSponge]

Interesting this thread should be resurrected as we have a new bill on the House floor that has already been passed by the Senate allowing OKLA beekeepers producing 500 gal or less to be exempt from both the health dept inspections and the permits to sell food stuff. In other words, we will be able to legally extract and bottle our honey in our kitchen and sell it to the public which is not legal right now.

[Andrew Dewey]

Ok, now you guys have got me curious.

Anyone know what the requirements are for Maine? I've never had enough to do anything more then friend type sales but I might expand a but this year.

K

Essentialy you need to process in a registered and inspected facility. Items checked include water quality, septic, basic sanitation. Honey is exempt from having to have each sized jar sent out for a lab test. I attended a MOFGA workshop on this a few months back and have my application here on my desk somewhere. I'll be attempting to have my home kitchen approved; when we built the kitchen I made sure to have washable walls and things like that. Floor drains too. Now, about proving my septic system can handle honey production...

[but note, cut comb honey is not considered processed]