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69.28.300  <<  69.28.310 >>   69.28.320

"Honey" defined.

The term "honey" as used herein is the nectar of floral exudations of plants, gathered and stored in the comb by honey bees (apis mellifica). It is laevo-rotatory, contains not more than twenty-five percent of water, not more than twenty-five one-hundredths of one percent of ash, not more than eight percent of sucrose, its specific gravity is 1.412, its weight not less than eleven pounds twelve ounces per standard gallon of 231 cubic inches at sixty-eight degrees Fahrenheit.
[ 1939 c 199 § 14; RRS § 6163-14. Formerly RCW 69.28.010, part.]
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