W. Va. Code R. § 61-2A-2

Current through Register Vol. XLI, No. 50, December 13, 2024
Section 61-2A-2 - Definitions
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.

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