Rules on Selling Honey
If you have come to this page looking to buy some Oxfordshire honey we now have a page showing the location of OBKA members who sell honey to members of the public.
Click here to go to the Buy Local Honey page.
If you sell your own honey then there are things you should know about hygiene, jar labels and so on. If you are a hobby beekeeper who sells honey on the doorstep the rules are relatively straightforward, but you still need to follow appropriate standards of cleanliness and hygiene when extracting honey for sale and you still need to apply the rules for labelling honey.
The rules and regulations around selling honey are not straightforward and in particular you should be aware of the 2015 Honey (England) Regulations (that can be found here).
Members’ of OBKA will be aware that Andy Pedly, a retired Environmental Health Officer, gave a talk on ‘Food Safety Legislation and the Beekeeper’ on 07 Feb 2020. His talk is reported on in the March 2020 newsletter (available from the Newsletters section of the Members’ area) and there is a link to the slides from his talk on the Members Area Home Page.
Andy has also written a book, Food Safety for Bee Keepers, available from Northern Bee Books.
The BBKA has recently (Jan 2020 when noticed) updated their ‘Beekeeping Legislation‘ page. There are now 2 references to selling honey; the same link to The Honey (England) Regulations 2015 and a new link to information on the labelling of honey on the BusinessCompanion website. The information on the website is also available as a downloadable .PDF which we attach, below, for your convenience.