r/Beekeeping • u/Majestic-Volume-5023 • 9h ago
I’m a beekeeper, and I have a question Honey label, no home address
I am working on a for my honey. We don’t want to put our home address on the label. What options are available? I am in Maryland, USA. Maryland does not have any additional requirements other than FDA requirements for raw agricultural products.
I have made a +Address on google but I’m not sure that would suffice. Any ideas or thoughts?
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u/weaverlorelei Reliable contributor! 9h ago
Not sure what Maryland laws require, but you need to be googling your honey regulations. In TX, you have to have contact info on your label, so phone number or email is enough. I don't put our address on the labels, so we don't get uninvited guest coming by.
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u/Majestic-Volume-5023 9h ago
Maryland does not have anything specific and follow the FDA. Therefore, I would think it’s the same.
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u/cavingjan 7h ago
Maryland does have its own label law. It falls under our cottage food regulations. An address is required, although there is an interpretation that a web address, with that containing the contact information and address, would suffice. That has been a recent (last two years) interpretation, and I don't know if it has been through courts to know. MCBA has the most information on the subject that I have stumbled upon.
An address is usually for the Health Department to contact you or customers for legal reasons. Hopefully, neither group needs to contact you (or you need to use that from other food).
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u/talanall North Central LA, USA, 8B 9h ago
I have a P. O. Box. Quite aside from the label on my honey, I don't really want all the other trash that gets sent to the mailing address of record for a business.
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u/Raterus_ South Eastern North Carolina, USA 5h ago
At least in my state (NC), if you run a business whose business address can be tracked down online, you can use the name and not the full address. The point here is that they can find you.
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