Bill Makes Fake Maple Sales A Felony

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To protect the purity of Vermont’s signature crop, senators in Vermont, Maine and New York have co-sponsored a bill that would make it a felony to sell fake maple syrup as the real thing. It would also increase the penalties from one year to five years in prison.

One Vermont couple got a look at the problem first hand. They thought they were getting a sweet deal on real maple syrup when they found a good price for it online.

Henry Marckres, a maple specialist with the Vermont Agency of Agriculture, says it turns out the syrup they bought in 2009 wasn’t real at all. He says tests show it was pure cane sugar.

Marckres says it didn’t take long to figure out the syrup was phony.

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