Speaking exclusively to FEMAIL, London-based honey sommelier Sarah Wyndham- Lewis revealed that so called honey-laundering is so widespread 10M hives are at risk.
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In this interview, Peter Awram is an expert from the Worker Bee Honey Company, the largest apiary in British Columbia, Canada, and Gillian Wade, an expert in consumer class action litigation, discuss the issues facing honey producers.
The SA Bee Industry Organisation had a workshop last Thursday (on World Bee Day) to unpack the growing problem of honey adulteration and its threat to biodiversity, reports The Daily Maverick.
They hope to send a message for consumers, regulators, and retailers to vote with their wallets and stem the rising tide of fake honey.
Out of all these high-demand food products, honey fraud has particularly increased and evolved because it is a more complex product that makes testing its authenticity rather expensive.
Honey is defined by the Codex Alimentarius (1981), which is a collection of internationally accepted standards of practice to protect consumer health and ensure fair practices in the food trade, as follows: