🍯 UK Honey Labelling & Batch Traceability

About this simulation

A honey producer selling jars at a UK market stall must keep two things straight at once: the label on the jar, and the paperwork trail that lets a jar on the table be traced back to the specific extraction batch it came from. This scene shows both — a row of jars on the stall table, and a traceability path running from hive to extraction tank to jarring line to stall, with a clipboard tallying what the label is missing.

How it works

• Lot / batch code — honey is exempt from a mandatory "best before" batch-mark rule only if the best-before date itself pins the batch down to day and month; most small producers print a separate lot code anyway so a complaint or recall can be traced to one specific extraction run.
• Best-before date — required on every pre-packed jar under UK food information law.
• Country of origin — honey must state where it was produced ("Produce of the UK", a named country, or "blend of EU and non-EU honeys").
• FBO name & address — the food business operator's name and UK address must appear so any jar can be traced back to who packed it.
• Each jar's label turns green only when all four elements are present; the clipboard tallies a live compliance score for the whole batch.

Controls

• Toggles — switch each label element on or off and watch the jars and clipboard update.
• Batch size — how many jars from this extraction run are on the table.
• ▶ Trace batch to stall — sends a glowing batch-code tag along the hive → extractor → jarring → stall path, turning red if it would fail an inspection.

Did you know?

Under UK law, market traders selling pre-packed honey are legally a "food business operator" just like a large packer — the labelling and traceability duties are the same regardless of how many jars are on the table.