Astrid Manske and David Moffat of OtonaBee Apiary of Indian
River, Ont., have been found guilty of being too generous to their honey
customers.
They put an extra 330 grams of honey into their one-litre
jars and an extra 150 grams into their 500-ml jars that they sold from their
residence, at farmers’ markets and several stores.
First it was Paul Bailey, an inspector with the Ontario
Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, who ordered the offending jars
off the market.
Then it was the director of the OMAFRA division that refused
their appeal.
And now it’s the OMAFRA Appeals Tribunal that has also found
them guilty of violating Section 17 of Ontario Regulation 119/11.
They have been given 45 days to pull the jars from the
market.
Meanwhile the federal government has scrapped its
regulations governing package sizes which has prompted a large number of food
manufacturers to reduce the amount of food they offer in their packaging.
It seems this is another type of honey-bee colony collapse.
