Revised Code of Washington
Chapter 69.28 - Honey.
69.28.400 - Labeling requirements for artificial honey or mixtures containing honey.

RCW 69.28.400
Labeling requirements for artificial honey or mixtures containing honey.

(1) No person shall sell, keep for sale, expose or offer for sale, any article or product in imitation or semblance of honey branded exclusively as "honey", "liquid or extracted honey", "strained honey" or "pure honey".
(2) No person, firm, association, company or corporation shall manufacture, sell, expose or offer for sale, any compound or mixture branded or labeled exclusively as honey which shall be made up of honey mixed with any other substance or ingredient.
(3) Whenever honey is mixed with any other substance or ingredient and the commodity is to be marketed in imitation or semblance of honey, the product shall be labeled with the word "artificial" or "imitation" in the same type size and style as the word "honey";
(4) Whenever any substance or commodity is to be marketed in imitation or semblance of honey, but contains no honey, the product shall not be branded or labeled with the word "honey" and/or depict thereon a picture or drawing of a bee, bee hive, or honeycomb;
(5) 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; nor shall such compound or mixture be branded or labeled exclusively 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 exclusively with the word "honey", unless such article is pure honey.

[ 1975 1st ex.s. c 283 § 1.]

Structure Revised Code of Washington

Revised Code of Washington

Title 69 - Food, Drugs, Cosmetics, and Poisons

Chapter 69.28 - Honey.

69.28.020 - Enforcement power and duty of director and agents.

69.28.025 - Rules and regulations have force of law.

69.28.030 - Rules prescribing standards.

69.28.040 - Right to enter, inspect, and take samples.

69.28.050 - Containers to be labeled.

69.28.060 - Requisites of markings.

69.28.070 - "Marked" defined—When honey need not be marked.

69.28.080 - Purchaser to be advised of standards—Exceptions.

69.28.090 - Forgery, simulation, etc., of marks, labels, etc., unlawful.

69.28.095 - Unlawful mutilation or removal of seals, marks, etc., used by director.

69.28.100 - Marks for "slack-filled" container.

69.28.110 - Use of used containers.

69.28.120 - Floral source labels.

69.28.130 - Adulterated honey—Sale or offer unlawful.

69.28.133 - Nonconforming honey—Sale or offer unlawful.

69.28.135 - Warning-tagged honey—Movement prohibited.

69.28.140 - Possession of unlawful honey as evidence.

69.28.170 - Inspectors—Prosecutions.

69.28.180 - Violation of rules and regulations unlawful.

69.28.185 - Penalty.

69.28.190 - "Director" defined.

69.28.200 - "Container" defined.

69.28.210 - "Subcontainer" defined.

69.28.220 - "Section box" defined.

69.28.230 - "Clean and sound containers" defined.

69.28.240 - "Pack," "packing," or "packed" defined.

69.28.250 - "Label" defined.

69.28.260 - "Person" defined.

69.28.270 - "Slack-filled" defined.

69.28.280 - "Deceptive arrangement" defined.

69.28.290 - "Mislabeled" defined.

69.28.300 - "Placard" defined.

69.28.310 - "Honey" defined.

69.28.320 - "Comb-honey" defined.

69.28.330 - "Extracted honey" defined.

69.28.340 - "Crystallized honey" defined.

69.28.350 - "Honeydew" defined.

69.28.360 - "Foreign material" defined.

69.28.370 - "Foreign honey" defined.

69.28.380 - "Adulterated honey" defined.

69.28.390 - "Serious damage" defined.

69.28.400 - Labeling requirements for artificial honey or mixtures containing honey.

69.28.410 - Embargo on honey or product—Notice by director—Removal.

69.28.420 - Embargo on honey or product—Court order affirming, required—Order for destruction or correction and release—Bond.

69.28.430 - Consolidation of petitions presenting same issue and claimant.

69.28.440 - Sample of honey or product may be obtained—Procedure.

69.28.450 - Recovery of damages barred if probable cause for embargo.

69.28.900 - Severability—1939 c 199.

69.28.910 - Short title.