Labelling requirements for honey

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• Overview
• Common name – honey
• List of ingredients – honey
  • When packaged and sold as such
  • When used in multi-ingredient foods
• Net quantity declaration – honey
  • Standard container sizes for honey
• Name and principal place of business – honey
• Country of origin – honey
• Grade name for honey
• Colour class designation for honey
• Type height for net quantity, grade and colour declarations
• Other required markings
• Non-compliant honey
• Lot code
• Voluntary claims and statements
  • Manuka honey
  • Quantitative statements on non-nutrients
  • Raw honey
• Reference information
  • Summary table of labelling requirements for consumer prepackaged honey
  • Summary table of labelling requirements for prepackaged other than consumer prepackaged honey
• Definitions
  • Colour class
  • Consumer prepackaged
  • Container
  • Foreign state
  • Grade name
  • Honey
  • Person
  • Prepackaged