FDA 支配するs that honey with 追加するd sweeteners can no longer be called 'honey'

• U.S. Food and 麻薬 行政's new 指導／手引 妨げるs food companies from 追加するing sugar or other sweeteners to pure honey and still calling the 製品 honey
• Food 商売／仕事s or importers will need to label 製品s 正確に
• If sweeteners are 追加するd, the label should read 'blend of sugar and honey'

By Associated 圧力（をかける） and Reuters

Published: 15:28 BST, 8 April 2014 | Updated: 21:25 BST, 8 April 2014

Honey mixed with sugar might be 甘い, but it is not 'honey.'

The Food and 麻薬 行政 is taking steps to 確実にする that shoppers who buy honey are getting the real 取引，協定.

New 指導／手引 問題／発行するd Tuesday would 妨げる food companies from 追加するing sugar or other sweeteners to pure honey and still calling it 'honey.'

Funny honey: The Food and 麻薬 行政 is taking steps to 確実にする that shoppers who buy honey are getting the real 取引，協定

The 機関 said 施行 活動／戦闘 is possible against U.S. food 商売／仕事s or importers if companies try to 削減（する） those sweeteners into real honey and do not label the 製品 正確に.

If those sweeteners are 追加するd, the label should read 'blend of sugar and honey' or 'blend of honey and corn syrup.'

The FDA 定期的に 拘留するs honey 輸入するs and 実験（する）s them after finding 麻薬 residues and unlabeled 追加するd sweeteners.

Only 製造（する）s that do not 追加する sugar, corn syrup or other sweeteners should label their 製品s as pure 'honey,' the FDA said in 草案 指導基準s 地位，任命するd online.

The 提案 目的（とする）s 'to advise the 規制するd food 産業 on the proper labeling of honey and honey 製品s to help 確実にする that honey and honey 製品s are not adulterated or misbranded,' the 機関 wrote.

Americans 消費する more than 400 million 続けざまに猛撃するs of honey each year, によれば U.S. 政府 and 産業 見積（る）s.

New 支配するs: The 指導／手引, 解放（する）d Tuesday, would stop food companies from putting sugar or other sweeteners into pure honey and still referring to it as honey

But just 149 million 続けざまに猛撃するs were produced in the 部隊d 明言する／公表するs last year, U.S. Department of 農業 data showed.

To 料金d America's 甘い tooth, much honey is 輸入するd, and U.S. 生産者s are worried about cheap 代用品，人s.

Pure honey is 一般に more expensive than those mixed with corn syrup and 伝統的な sugar, and prices reached a 記録，記録的な／記録する high of $2.12 a 続けざまに猛撃する last year, によれば the USDA.

The FDA's review follows a 嘆願（書） from the American Beekeeping 連合 and several other 関係のある groups 捜し出すing a 基準 U.S. 鮮明度／定義 for the natural sweetener to 促進する fair 貿易（する）.While the 機関 拒絶するd their request, it said it was willing to look at labeling.

Sticky 状況／情勢: If sweeteners are 追加するd, the label should read 'blend of sugar and honey' or 'blend of honey and corn syrup'

The FDA 検査／視察するd 輸入するd honey to see whet her it had been 'adulterated' with corn or 茎 sugars. In 最近の １０年間s, it 拘留するd honey 含む／封じ込めるing such 代用品，人s from countries such as Brazil and Mexico, によれば the 機関.

製造業者s have 60 days to comment on the 提案 before final 指導基準s are 問題／発行するd. Even then, however, 指導基準s are not 義務的な.