---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 C.F.R. § 1434.5"
title: "7"
number: "1434.5"
heading: "Eligible honey."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/7/1434.5"
---

# §1434.5. Eligible honey.


To be eligible for a loan, the honey must:

- (a) Have been produced by an eligible producer;
- (b) Have been produced in the United States during the calendar year for which a loan is requested and extracted on or before December 31 of such calendar year;
- (c) **Be of merchantable quality deemed by CCC to be suitable for loan; that is, the honey—**
  - (1) Is not adulterated;
  - (2) Has not been scorched, burned, or subjected to excessive heat resulting in objectionable flavor, color deterioration or carmelization;
  - (3) Does not contain any ineligible honey floral sources; such as andromeda, bitterweed, broomweed, cajeput (melaleuca), carrot, chinquapin, dog fennel, desert hollyhock, gumweed, mescal, onion, prickly pear, prune, queen's delight, rabbit brush, snowbrush (ceanothus), snow-on-the-mountain, spurge (leafy spurge), tarweed, and similar objectionably-flavored honey or blends of honey as determined by the Director, Price Support Division, FSA. If any blends of honey contain such ineligible honey, the lot as a whole will be considered ineligible for loan;
  - (4) Does not contain excessive bees or bee parts, paint chips, wood chips, or other foreign matter; and
  - (5) Is not fermenting; and
- (d) **Be stored in acceptable containers.**

## Notes

### Amendments

[66 FR 15177, Mar. 15, 2001, as amended at 80 FR 141, Jan. 2, 2015]

### Authority

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 7231-7237, 7931-7936, and 9031-9040; and 15 U.S.C. 714b and c.

### Source

Source: 66 FR 15177, Mar. 15, 2001, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[66 FR 15177, Mar. 15, 2001, as amended at 80 FR 141, Jan. 2, 2015]