{"data":{"id":"us/7-cfr-1434.5","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"7 CFR 1434.5","heading":"Eligible honey.","body":"To be eligible for a loan, the honey must:\n(a) Have been produced by an eligible producer;\n(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;\n(c) Be of merchantable quality deemed by CCC to be suitable for loan; that is, the honey:\n(1) Is not adulterated;\n(2) Has not been scorched, burned, or subjected to excessive heat resulting in objectionable flavor, color deterioration or carmelization;\n(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;\n(4) Does not contain excessive bees or bee parts, paint chips, wood chips, or other foreign matter; and\n(5) Is not fermenting; and\n(d) Be stored in acceptable containers.","path":["Title 7—Agriculture","Subtitle B—Regulations of the Department of Agriculture","CHAPTER XIV—COMMODITY CREDIT CORPORATION, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE","SUBCHAPTER B—LOANS, PURCHASES, AND OTHER OPERATIONS","PART 1434—NONRECOURSE MARKETING ASSISTANCE LOANS AND LOAN DEFICIENCY PAYMENTS FOR HONEY"],"source_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/api/versioner/v1/full/2026-08-25/title-7.xml","current_through":"2026-08-25","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T02:24:01Z","sha256":"3fa044c8ab50b73d30ed6f5ce0b86c31a8c6a90dccbff946bb4c53fae4333160","source_id":"us-cfr","stale":true,"prev":"us/7-cfr-1434.4","next":"us/7-cfr-1434.6"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}