The Honey (Scotland) Regulations 2015

Compositional requirements S

15.—(1) A person must not place any product on the market as “honey” unless it meets the general and appropriate detailed compositional criteria for “honey” specified in Parts 1 and 2 of the Schedule (compositional criteria).

(2) A person must not place any product on the market using a product name listed in paragraph (5) unless it meets the general and appropriate detailed compositional criteria for that type of honey specified in Parts 1 and 2 of the Schedule.

(3) A person must not use a product (“the honey ingredient”) as “honey” in a product intended to be placed on the market for human consumption unless the honey ingredient meets the general and appropriate detailed compositional criteria for “honey” specified in Parts 1 and 2 of the Schedule.

(4) A person must not use a product (“the honey ingredient”) as honey of a type listed in one of the sub-paragraphs of paragraph (5) in a product intended to be placed on the market for human consumption unless the honey ingredient meets the general and appropriate detailed compositional criteria for that type of honey specified in Parts 1 and 2 of the Schedule.

(5) The product names and types of honey are—

(a) baker's honey;

(b) blossom honey;

(c) chunk honey;

(d) comb honey;

(e) cut comb in honey;

(f) drained honey;

(g) extracted honey;

(h) filtered honey;

(i) honeydew honey;

(j) nectar honey; and

(k) pressed honey.