B.C. Certified Honey Producer Agreement

The Certified Producer program is designed to assist BCHPA members sell their products by providing special labeling that customers will come to recognize as representing high quality honey, exclusively produced by local beekeepers. These labels are transferable with your honey, to another Certified Producer. Labels are forfeited back to the BCHPA upon failure to renew annual membership to the BCHPA and failure to renew certified producer agreement every two years.

General Guidelines

1. New member to the BCHPA: For the first year a new member to the BCHPA is restricted to a maximum order of 2,000 labels.
2. Maximum order: for the first year of the program a maximum label order will be set at 5,000. Future maximum order may be set by number of colonies registered to the producer X area yield X 500 grams.
3. The Certified Producers and their corresponding label lot numbers will be listed on the BCHPA website and also posted annually in the BeesCene.

Costs

Lots consist of groups of 1,000.
2,000 and less: $0.05
3,000 and greater: $0.04

Producer will also incur all shipping costs.

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