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<section article="gag" article_name="Agriculture" number="10-1905" 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>A person may designate a food product as “honey” if the product conforms to the Maryland standard of identity for honey set forth in § 10–1904 of this subtitle.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>If a food product contains any flavoring, spice, or other ingredient in addition to honey, the name of the product shall distinguish the product from pure honey and designate the food additive.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>If processing materially changes the flavor, color, viscosity, or other material characteristic of pure honey, the name of the product shall distinguish the product from pure honey and designate the modification.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>For blossom or nectar honey, the name of the food may be supplemented by the term “blossom” or “nectar”.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>For honeydew honey, the word “honeydew” may be placed in close proximity to the name of the food.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>For mixtures of blossom or nectar honey with honeydew honey, the name of the food may be supplemented with the words “a blend of honeydew honey with blossom honey” or “a blend of honeydew honey with nectar honey”.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Honey may be designated by the name of a geographical or topographical region if the honey was produced exclusively within the area referred to in the designation.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>When honey has been designated by the name of a geographical or topographical region, the name of the country where the honey has been produced shall be declared on the label.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="h">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Honey may be designated according to a floral or plant source if it comes wholly or mainly from that particular source and has the organoleptic, physicochemical, and microscopic properties corresponding with that origin.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>When honey has been designated according to a floral or plant source:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>The common name or the botanical name of the floral source shall be in close proximity to the word “honey”; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The name of the country where the honey has been produced shall be declared on the label.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="i">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Honey may be designated according to the following methods of removal from the comb:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>“Extracted honey” is honey obtained by centrifuging decapped broodless combs;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>“Pressed honey” is honey obtained by pressing broodless combs; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>“Drained honey” is honey obtained by draining decapped broodless combs.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The designations in paragraph (1) of this subsection may not be used unless the honey conforms to the applicable description.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="j">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Honey may be designated according to the following styles:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>“Honey” that is honey in liquid, crystalline state, or a mixture of the two;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>“Comb honey” that is honey stored by bees in the cells of freshly built broodless combs and that is sold in sealed whole combs or sections of such combs; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>“Cut comb in honey”, “honey with comb”, or “chunk honey” that is honey containing one or more pieces of comb honey.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The styles designated in paragraph (1)(ii) and (iii) of this subsection shall be declared on the label.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
