West Virginia Code of State Rules › Agency 61 - Agriculture › Title 61 - LEGISLATIVE RULE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE › Series 61-02A - Labeling Of Imported Honey, Honey Products Or Honey Bee By-Products, Adulterated Honey, Honey Products Or Honey Bee By-Products Rule › Section 61-2A-2 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. XLI, No. 28, July 12, 2024
2.1. "Adulteration
				of a honey product" means any honey product whose principal ingredient is honey
				and which has undergone alteration, introduction of additives or processing so
				as to make the product appear or misconstrued to be in its pure, unadulterated
				form. Any honey product is considered adulterated if the adulteration of the
				honey product is economically motivated with the intent to achieve economic
				gain by misleading prospective consumers through deceptive labeling or other
				false representation of its actual content or origin.
2.2. "Bee pollen" is a food supplement
				consisting of pollen that has been packed by worker honey bees into granules,
				with added honey or nectar.
2.3.
				"Country of origin" means the country where a product originates.
2.4. "Fructose", or fruit sugar, is a simple
				monosaccharide found in many foods and is the most water-soluble of all the
				sugars. Honey, tree fruits, berries, melons, and some root vegetables contain
				significant amounts of molecular fructose, usually in combination with
				glucose.
2.5. "Glucose" is a simple
				monosaccharide and carbohydrate that cells use as the primary source of
				energy.
2.6. "Honey bee by-product"
				is a product that directly results from the honey bee manufacture of foodstuff
				for the nutrition and development of honey bees.
2.7. "Honey product" is any product that
				contains honey as an ingredient or whose label indicates honey as an
				ingredient.
2.8. "Imported" means
				brought into the United States from another country.
2.9. "Invert sugar syrup" is a mixture of
				simple monosaccharide sugars of glucose and fructose.
2.10. "Maltose" is the disaccharide produced
				when the enzyme amylase catalyzes the breakdown of starch into sugars and is
				often referred to as malt sugar.
2.11. "Monosaccharides" are basic units of
				carbohydrates and are the simplest form of sugar.
2.12. "Oligosaccharides" is a saccharide
				polymer containing a small number of component sugars, also known as simple
				sugars (monosaccharides).
2.13.
				"Principal ingredient" means the ingredient is the predominant ingredient by
				weight when other ingredients are present.
2.14. "Royal jelly" is a honey bee secretion
				that is used in the nutrition of larvae, as well as adult queens.
2.15. "Stable Carbon Isotope Ratio Analysis
				or SCIRA" for a honey test measures the carbon-13 content of the whole honey,
				according to Association of Official Analytical Chemists (AOAC) methods. These
				methods can detect the adulteration of expensive honey with cheap high-fructose
				corn syrup (HFCS) and cane sugar.
2.16. "Sucrose" is the organic compound
				commonly known as table sugar whose molecules are a disaccharide derived from
				glucose and fructose.
2.17.
				"Vendor" is a person offering something for sale.