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. 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. |
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....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. |
