It is not what I am saying. it is the law. Notice it says transformed BY and is the natural product OF the honey be.
"HONEY SALE AND LABELING ACT
Act of Jul. 20, 1974, P.L. 537, No. 184 Cl. 31
AN ACT
Defining honey and regulating its sale and the labeling and sale
of imitations of honey; and providing penalties for violation.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
● Section 1. The terms "honey," "liquid or extracted honey" "strained honey" or "pure
honey" as used in this act, shall mean the nectar of flowers that has been transformed
by, and is the natural product of the honey-bee, taken from the honeycomb and
marketed in a liquid, candied or granulated condition.
● Section 2. (a) No person shall sell, keep for sale, expose or offer for sale, any article
or product in imitation or semblance of honey branded as "honey," "liquid or extracted
honey," "strained honey" or "pure honey" which is not pure Honey.
● (b) No person, firm, association, company or corporation, shall manufacture, sell,
expose or offer for sale, any compound or mixture branded or labeled as and for
honey which shall be made up of honey mixed with any other substance or ingredient.
● (c) Whenever honey is mixed with any other substance or ingredient and the
commodity is to be marketed, there shall be printed on the package containing
such compound or mixture a statement giving the ingredients of which it is made;
if honey is one of such ingredients it shall be so stated in the same size type as are
the other ingredients, but it shall not be sold, exposed for sale, or offered for sale
as honey; nor shall such compound or mixture be branded or labeled with the word
"honey" in any form other than as herein provided; nor shall any product in
semblance of honey, whether a mixture or not, be sold, exposed or offered for sale
as honey, or branded or labeled with the word "honey," unless such article is pure
honey.
● Section 3. Any person violating the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a summary
offense and on conviction thereof shall be punished as provided by the "Crimes Code"
● Section 4. Nothing in this act shall be interpreted as preempting, usurping or replacing
the jurisdiction or activities of the Federal Government in connection with the labeling
or mislabeling of honey or imitations thereof.
Honey is not Honey until it is capped. bees do not cap honey until it reaches 18.5% or less. so call it what you like adding nectar, dehydrating nectar and calling it honey according to the state of Pennsylvania is not honey. and cannot even be labeled honey, and sold. , It is not my philosophy although I do agree with it. allowing nectar into honey, and calling it honey is simply a way to extend the volume of the product and sell it as something that it is not. " Pure Honey. that would equate to gathering 100 gallons of 15% moisture honey and adding 3.5% water. are you proposing that that is an acceptable practice. I have not intended to insult anyone. if someone is so thin skinned as to take offence to someone who takes a purest attitude, then they need to find another planet to live on.