Organic Honey – (may contain a variety of organs)

Here’s a honey of a lawsuit. Target Corp has been targeted in a legal action by a Ms. Cardona, apparently of somewhere in California, who discovered from her on-line research that the $3 bottle of honey she purchased at a Target store had been filtered or processed to remove its pollen. The shopper filed a class action lawsuit claiming that the product was in violation of California laws, according to Forbes.

Target responded that the applicable federal rules provide no standard for what constitutes “honey” and that the Nutrition Labeling and Education Act requires companies to label their food products with “the common or usual name” which in this case would be honey. If Target were to call the product something like “Honey (without Pollen)” according to the presiding judge, such a label would then be in conflict with federal regulations, and would be illegal. On that basis, the suit was preempted.