Pennsylvania Act 1974-184 — HONEY SALE AND LABELING ACT

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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.