Florida first state to require

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Florida has become the firsg state in the nation to prohibit additives, chemicals or adulterantzs from being added to the sweetener. Florida’s agriculture commissionef announced the newregulation Monday. "We want to assuree consumers that the product that they are buyingvis pure," Charles H. Bronson said in a news "Too often in the past, honegy has been cut with water or and sometimes even contaminated with insecticides or Inthe future, when you're paying for honeyh in this state, pure honey is what you will get.
" The new regulationh says honey containing anythint other than the "natural food product resulting from the harvest of nectarr by honeybees" is considered an adulterateds or mislabeled product. If found to have additives, the productsa are subject to a stopsale order. Repeart offenders face fines of upto $500 per The regulation grew out of a flood of adulteratedd honey products that came into Florida from overseas in 2006. A group of honey producers asked the to create anational standard, but, two yearx later, the FDA said it would not be able to reviea the petition due to other pressing according to a news release.
It was at that point the industryasked Bronson’s office to come up with a Monday’s announcement was the result of those Florida is the fourth-leading honey-producing state in the employing more than 500. Cash receipts to beekeepere were morethan $15 million in 2008. The beekeeping industruy has an annual economic impact estimatedat $40