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Maine Revised Statutes, Title 7, § 903: Labeling containers, 2021

Products made with birch sugar or birch syrup must be clearly labeled, and certain birch terms are restricted on labels for diluted products.

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Products made with birch sugar or birch syrup must be clearly labeled, and certain birch terms are restricted on labels for diluted products.

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§ 903Labeling containersProvision

Products made with birch sugar or birch syrup must be clearly labeled, and certain birch terms are restricted on labels for diluted products.

A person may not sell or offer for sale in any place or serve in any hotel, restaurant or other public eating place any birch sugar, birch confection or candy or birch syrup or any product labeled or represented as such that is in any way combined, interfused or diluted with cane or other sugars or other substance without distinctly marking, stamping or labeling the article or the package containing cane or other sugars or other substance or the advertisement of or menu statement with an accurate and descriptive name of the article and, in the case of birch sugar and birch syrup, the percentage in which birch sugar or birch syrup enters into its composition. In the case of birch confection or candy, the ingredients must be listed in the order of the volume of each ingredient with the ingredient of greatest volume listed first. The words "birch," "birched" and "birching" and words of similar import, except as printed in the percentage statement, may not appear in any manner on the article in which a product of birch syrup is combined, interfused or diluted, unless the word "blend" appears immediately before, after, above or below and in equal prominence with the word "birch" or words of similar import, or unless the term "birch flavored" appears in similar fashion on the label. [PL 2021, c. 43, §1 (NEW).]
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