Honey Adulteration tests from India: A 100% Detection of C4 Sugars
While we are seeing rates of 20+ percent in some parts of the world. Tests in other areas can be even worse.
Honey Fraud is a Worldwide Problem!
South Africa has seen as much as 75% of the honey that has been tested as fraudulent and this was using the C4 test that doesn't detect rice syrup. Extensive testing is going to be the only way to stop this. It is far too easy to get starch syrups these days. And local doesn't necessarily mean safe any one can jump online and get it delivered. There often is some beekeeper that always has a great crop and never seems to run out of honey.
The honey mixed into other foods is one of the destinations for fake honey.
Jonathan Hache of the CFIA talks about how honey added to food products is one of the biggest problems with regard to syrup masquerading as honey. Read more here
CFIA report on adulterated honey in Canada is making waves
The CFIA report from last week found over 20% of the samples they tested were adulterated. These results mirror what have been seen in the European Union and in Australia. The CFIA needs to expand these analysis of Canadian honey further.
Honey Fraud in Australia
At the end of 2018 a paper came out in Nature Scientific Reports detailing an analysis of a number of honey from Australia and New Zealand as well as from other parts of the world. Well over 20% had indications of fraud using EA-IRMS. Read more about the report here
A B.C. solution to taking the sting out of honey fraud
In the last fiscal year, more than 23 per cent of imported honey products tested by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency contained additives, despite being labelled pure. The agency found the honey had been diluted with rice and corn syrups.
Almost 20 per cent of Australian honey samples found to not be pure
The study, conducted by a team of scientists at Macquarie University, used 100 samples of honey sourced globally, including