Brian,

You bring up a contentious topic - one that many beekeepers here in 
Canada feel that they are subject to poor labelling - to their detriment.

Honey labelling and the grading of the pot's content appears to be lax.

Having produced for the French market (and to a smaller degree - the UK 
market), I suggest that what is allowed over here would not pass over there.
Things might have changed since I had bees in France.

I remember that there was a big problem over this topic during the last 
re-wording of the Codex A.

The European producers wished to protect the honey and its quality with 
tight wording - but the Packers and large Importing countries were dead 
against it as it would have restricted what went into the pots!

The latter won the case due to putting forward a veto proposition 
stating that if the producers insisted on their point, then they (the 
packers etc.) would veto it, causing the total collapse of the procedure 
to get the new Codex in place.
This effectively would have meant that the old one would have stayed in 
position - and that was considered to have been totally unacceptable.

In Canada, a rewording of labels and what they mean is being debated.
See:
http://www.honeycouncil.ca/users/Folder.asp?FolderID=4753&NewsID=491

Regards,

Peter

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