Code of Maine Rules
01 - DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, CONSERVATION AND FORESTRY
001 - AGRICULTURE - GENERAL
Chapter 347 - BIRCH AND MAPLE SYRUP PROCESSING
Section 001-347-8 - Labeling of Further Processed Birch and Maple Products

A. 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 or maple sugar, confection or candy or maple and 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

B. Birch and maple sugar or syrup, that is not a 100% maple or birch product shall state the percentage of birch or maple sugar and syrup that enters into its composition.

C. In the case of birch and maple confection or candy, the ingredients must be listed in the order of their predominance by the weight of each ingredient with the ingredient of greatest weight listed first.

D. The words "birch" or "maple", "birched" or "mapled" and "birching" or "mapleing" 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 or maple syrup is combined, interfused or diluted, unless the word "blend" appears immediately before, after, above or below and in equal prominence with the words "birch" or "maple" words of similar import, or unless the term "birch" or "Maple" flavored appears in similar fashion on the label.