It is prohibited to hold for sale or free distribution, to offer for sale, to sell or to distribute free of charge flower honey, nectar honey or honeydew honey that does not comply with the provisions. following:

• The name "honey" is reserved for the product defined in I of annex I of decree n ° 2003-587 of June 30, 2003 [honey is the natural sweet substance produced by bees of the species Apis mellifera from nectar plants or secretions from living parts of plants or excretions left on them by sucking insects, which they forage, transform, by combining them with specific clean materials, deposit, dehydrate, store and leave to ripen in rays of the hive. With the exception of filtered honey, no pollen or constituents specific to honey should be removed unless this is unavoidable when removing foreign organic and inorganic material.] And is used commercially to refer to this product.
• The following names are reserved for the products defined therein and are used in trade to designate them:
• Flower honey or nectar honey: honey obtained from the nectars of plants;
• Honeydew honey: honey obtained mainly from excretions left on living parts of plants by sucking insects (hemiptera) or from secretio...Log in to see the rest ...

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