Code of Vermont Rules › Agency 20 - DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, FOOD AND MARKETS › Sub-Agency 011 - DEVELOPMENT DIVISION › Chapter 002 - MAPLE PRODUCTS REGULATIONS › Section 20 011 002 - MAPLE PRODUCTS REGULATIONS

Current through June, 2024
Section I
			 Definitions
1. As used in these
			 regulations:
a) "Act" means 6
			 V.S.A. Chapter 32;
b)
			 "Advertisement" means any method used to call attention to a product
			 which is intended to arouse a desire to purchase that product. It
			 shall include, but is not limited to, signs, displays, radio and
			 television broadcasts, newspapers and periodicals, direct mail, and
			 other printed forms;
c)
			 "Bulk maple syrup" means maple syrup packed in containers of more
			 than five gallons;
d)
			 "Secretary" means the Secretary for the Vermont Agency of
			 Agriculture, Food & Markets or his or her designee;
e) "Damage" means any defect that
			 affects the color, appearance, flavor, aroma, edibility or shipping
			 quality of the maple syrup or sugar. Maple syrup which is fermented
			 or which contains any buddy flavor, scorched flavor, or any other
			 distasteful foreign flavor shall be considered damaged;
f) "Dealer" means a person who
			 annually buys, or otherwise acquires from another person, 1,000
			 gallons of maple syrup or more, but less than 2500 gallons, for the
			 purposes of packaging for resale, or for resale in bulk;
g) "Agency" means the Vermont
			 Agency of Agriculture, Food & Markets;
h) "Doing business," when used in
			 connection with a dealer or processor, means a single act, or a
			 series of actions performed by the dealer or processor within Vermont
			 in the furtherance of that dealer or processor's business;
i) "Grade" or "grades" means the
			 standards for maple syrup promulgated through regulation by the
			 Secretary. Those standards shall be the official grades of maple
			 syrup for the state of Vermont;
j) "Inspector" means any person
			 designated by the Secretary to carry out the Secretary's duties under
			 this chapter;
k) "Light
			 transmission" means the ability of maple syrup to transmit light as
			 determined optically by means of a spectrophotometer;
l) "Maple products" means only
			 maple syrup, maple sugar, maple cream, or any other product in which
			 the sugar content is entirely derived from pure maple sap and to
			 which nothing has been added;
m) "Maple sap" means the
			 unprocessed liquid derived from the maple tree (Acer);
n) "Maple sap hydrometer" means a
			 floating instrument which measures the specific gravity of a liquid
			 and which contains a scale designed to determine the sugar content of
			 maple sap;
o) "Maple
			 sugar" means the solid, crystalline product of maple sap
			 only;
p) "Maple syrup"
			 means pure maple syrup which is the liquid derived by concentration
			 and heat treatment of the sap of the maple tree (Acer). Maple syrup
			 shall not be processed in any manner which adds or removes naturally
			 occurring soluble materials. The limitation does not preclude the use
			 of approved filter aids used for the sole purpose of assisting the
			 removal of suspended material or the use of defoaming agents approved
			 by the Secretary. Maple syrup shall comply with Vermont state grades,
			 density, and flavor requirements;
q) "Maple syrup hydrometer" means a
			 floating instrument which measures the specific gravity of a liquid
			 and which contains a scale designed to determine the density of maple
			 syrup;
r) "Packaged maple
			 syrup" means maple syrup packed in containers of five gallons or
			 less;
s) "Persons" means
			 individuals, groups of individuals, partnerships, limited
			 partnerships, corporations, companies, cooperatives, and
			 associations;
t)
			 "Principal display panel" shall be construed to mean that part of a
			 label that is so designed as to most likely be displayed, presented,
			 shown, or examined under normal and customary conditions of display
			 and purchase. Wherever a principal display panel appears more than
			 once on a package, all requirements pertaining to the "Principal
			 display panel" shall pertain to all such "principal display
			 panels";
u) "Processor"
			 means a person who annually buys, or otherwise acquires from another
			 person, 2,500 gallons of maple syrup or more for purposes of
			 packaging for resale, processing into associated products, or for
			 resale in bulk.
v)
			 "Produced in Vermont" shall mean only that maple syrup or other maple
			 products which are manufactured in their entirety from pure,
			 unprocessed maple sap within the state of Vermont pursuant to
			 standards established by the Act and these regulations;
w) "Public eating place" means any
			 person or establishment engaged in the business of preparing and
			 selling food for the general public's consumption on premises and who
			 is subject to the license requirement of
			 18 V.S.A.
			 4351;
x) "Spectrophotometer" means an
			 instrument which measures the % of light transmission through maple
			 syrup determining it's grade, by using matched square optical cells
			 having a 10 mm light path at a wavelength of 560 nm, the color values
			 being expressed in per cent of light transmission as compared to A.R.
			 Glycerol fixed at one hundred per cent transmission. Symbolized by
			 "%Tc".