Americans love honey
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It's in barbecue sauces, cereals, breads, snacks and those ubiquitous plastic honey bears. The high demand and low supply mean honey packers look elsewhere, namely China. |
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However, reports of Chinese price dumping, honey laundering and illegal drug use are raising suspicions that honey-sweetened food may not contain any honey at all. |
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A case for buying locally produced honey |
| Excerpts from Denver Post article |
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Most imported honey is from China.... |
in 2001, Chinese honey importers were implicated in a
decade-long price dumping scheme... |
multiple shipments of Chinese honey was contaminated with a banned antibiotic
(chloramphenicol,.. |
Florida detected fluoroquinolone antibiotics in imported Chinese honey....
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Chinese honey exporters try to sell off antibiotic-tainted honey by filtering it into simple syrup, blending it with real honey and selling it to the commercial baking and food industry as pure
honey. |
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