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<section article="gag" article_name="Agriculture" number="10-1901" title_number="10" title_name="Promotion and Identification of Agricultural Products" subtitle_number="19" subtitle_name="Standard of Identity for Honey">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>“Blossom honey” or “nectar honey” means honey that comes from nectars of plants.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>“Honey” means the natural food product that:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Honey bees produce from the nectar of plants, secretions of living parts of plants, or excretions of plant–sucking insects on the living parts of plants;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Honey bees collect, transform by combining with specific substances of their own, deposit, dehydrate, store, and leave in the honey comb to ripen and mature;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Consists essentially of different sugars, predominantly fructose and glucose, and other substances, including organic acids, enzymes, and solid particles derived from honey collection;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>Has the color that may vary from nearly colorless to dark brown;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>Has the consistency that may be fluid, viscous, or partly to entirely crystallized; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>Has the flavor and aroma that are derived from the plant of origin and may vary.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>“Honeydew honey” means honey that comes mainly from excretions of plant–sucking insects (Hemiptera) on the living parts of plants or secretions of living parts of plants.</text>
  </level>
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