California Food and Agricultural Code

§ 29413

FAC § 29413 Effective Jan 1, 2010Div. 13 · Ch. 2 · Art. 1

Statute text

(a)“Honey” means the natural sweet substance produced by honeybees from the nectar of plants or from secretions of living parts of plants or excretions of plant sucking insects on the living parts of plants, which the bees collect, transform by combining with specific substances of their own, deposit, dehydrate, store, and leave in the honeycomb to ripen and mature.

(b)“Blossom honey” or “nectar honey” means the honey that comes from nectars of plants.

(c)“Honeydew honey” means the honey that comes mainly from excretions of plant sucking insects (Hemiptera) on living parts of plants or secretions of living parts of plants.

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2009, Ch. 388, Sec. 1. (AB 1216) Effective January 1, 2010.