Standard 2.8.2 Honey
Purpose
This Standard defines honey and sets certain compositional requirements for the product. This Standard also makes the word ‘honey’ a prescribed name for the purposes of this Code.
Table of Provisions
1 Interpretation
2 Composition of honey
3 Prescribed name
Clauses
1 Interpretation
In this Code -
honey means the natural sweet substance produced by honey bees from the nectar of blossoms or from secretions of living parts of plants or excretions of plant sucking insects on the living parts of plants, which honey bees collect, transform and combine with specific substances of their own, store and leave in the honey comb to ripen and mature.
2 Composition for honey
Honey must contain -
(a) no less than 60 % reducing sugars; and
(b) no more than 21 % moisture.
3 Prescribed name
The word ‘honey’ is a prescribed name.
