Investigating Food Fraud in the Honey Industry
Are you curious about the ways in which honey adulteration occurs? This article covers important topics such as the impact
Has China messed with your honey? How the country’s ‘blending’ factories are now producing MORE honey than the world’s bees
To stay up to date on how the worlds honey production has grown by approximately 50% while the number of
Global food fraud rising as result of pandemic, report finds
Covid-19 is causing a rise in global food fraud, with "adulteration cases increased by 30% and counterfeit incidents by 47%".
Supermarket brands of honey are ‘bulked out with cheap sugar syrups made from rice and corn’
Honey tested using magnetic resonance in many of Britain's supermarkets have been under question for adulteration after products including Tesco
A Honey of an Issue
True Honey Buzz's very own Peter Awram delves into the many issues that Canada's beekeepers are seeing as the increase
The bee’s knees
Adulteration of honey can take many forms, including the addition of high fructose corn syrups, masking or mislabelling the product,
US Beekeepers Fear for the Future
Huge volumes of low cost honey are being imported into the United States every year. Two thirds of the honey
Honey: Fancy or Fake
At Sweetwater labs in Missouri a series of tests in 2019 were run on various off the shelf honey brands
What is Honey Adulteration?
As technology advances, scammers are becoming more aware of the food testing practices implemented. Once scammers know which characteristics we
Allegations of Honey Fraud coming out in the US
A suit has been filed in the US District Court in Pennsylvania on false labelling of honey. The suit appears to be based on the high levels of HMF that were found. This is an indication of excessive heating of the the honey which results in alteration of the basic components of honey.