Do you use safety/granulation labels?

[D Coates]

I'm just a small time beek who sells some retail and wholesale but I'm well below the $50K where USDA regulation guidelines kick in.  I've got my own custom labels (from Amy's Labels) for the front.  On the back I put the gold "Granulation:  All natural honey will turn solid.  To reliquify,place jar in warm water,  Warning: Do not feed honey to infants under one year." as a CYA. 

For my beekeeping sales and activities I am an LLC company and file taxes accordingly.  But I would be pretty upset to get sued by someone who claims their infant got sick from eating honey and they didn't know about not feeding honey to infants under 1 year of age.  Are any of you other small producers using this label or some version of it?

[rdy-b]

  there is no law that requires that label (unless its new law) However i put that label on all my jars
its good info-tells them how to re-qualify the jar -and the Infant warning is a curtesy that is received well
and the labels are inexpensive-RDY-B

[JP]

Well, I've also heard that the infant warning is suspect, don't know if its really proven to be as big of a deal as some say. I don't put that warning on my labels.

I tell people to try and eat the honey within a month or so as honey will granulate if it sits there long enough.

And if it granulates to the point it can't be re-liquified than use it like sugar.

Of course M.B. claims he only sells creamed honey, which would resolve many of these granulation issues.


...JP

[Bee-Bop]

I've often wondered about the infant label.

Going Way Way back 1940, when I was born, something was wrong with my stomach, the Dr. put me on Goats Milk & Honey, Mom said I was on it for a quite awhile.

Must have worked, now I got a Big Beer Belly.

Bee-Bop

[hardwood]

Honey, as with any raw food contains botulism spores (not the toxin) and shouldn't be fed to infants as their stomachs haven't developed the mechanisms to ward off the development of the bacteria that would produce the toxin. Once on solid food the threat is diminished.

Scott

[AllenF]

I see the safety/ warning labels all the time in the catalogs but I don't spend the money on them.   I think most of my honey would sell with out any label on them.   I do use the lid shrink wrap and bottle seals on them.   I just try to cover myself. 

[Michael Bush]

"Honey, as with any raw food contains botulism spores (not the toxin) and shouldn't be fed to infants as their stomachs haven't developed the mechanisms to ward off the development of the bacteria that would produce the toxin."

If I were to put a warning label on mine, I think I want that exact label...  mabye as "as with any raw food" again after the "and" to say:

"Honey, as with any raw food contains botulism spores (not the toxin) and, as with any raw food, shouldn't be fed to infants as their stomachs haven't developed the mechanisms to ward off the development of the bacteria that would produce the toxin."

[alfred]

"Honey, as with any raw food contains botulism spores (not the toxin) and shouldn't be fed to infants as their stomachs haven't developed the mechanisms to ward off the development of the bacteria that would produce the toxin."

Nice, explains it clearly.
I am going to use it if you don't mind>

[JP]

Man, y'all are just babying your babies way too much!  :-D

Alright, I concede, no honey to the iddy lil brats!  :-D


...JP

[D Coates]

I read less than a handful of kids get sick from it happening. :roll:  Statistically insignificant and no big deal until one of their parents smells money and gets a lawyer.  Even if they don't win the costs associated with defending yourself will cost you dearly.  I prefer to CMA with a sticker that costs just over $.01. 

I wouldn't be so paranoid if everyone wasn't out to get me. ;)

[Scadsobees]

It's good to have the label and warning, but you can have a label, a warning, force people to sign waivers, but if they smell money and so does the lawyer none of that will matter.

But then again, I don't think that there's ever been a beekeeper that smelled like money... :-D

[wd]

I don't recall ever seeing a warning label on honey jars and such. When growing up, my mother wouldn't let her kids eat honey until 2 years of age and she explained why. I have done the same with my own.

[rdy-b]

  one thing to think about is the fact that the warning label is on that jar PROMOTES                                                                       the fact that the honey is Raw-People like reinforcements to there thinking-RDY-B

[AllenF]

When I was a baby, I was fed honey.  And I was probably given raw food also.  And they let me play outside, on the ground, in the dirt.   

But I did not do any of that with my son except for the latter.   And that is where the majority of the botulism cases come from.  But I do say to everyone to cover your rear ends in the legal world.