An investigation by the European Commission found that all 10 ordinary honey samples from the UK failed adulteration tests, with the honey, while blended or packaged in Britain, probably originating from overseas and mixed with sugar syrup.
The study found that 46 per cent of all samples tested were found to be fraudulent. The EU’s directorate general for health and food safety worked with 18 countries in the EU food fraud network and tested 320 samples, finding that 147 had “at least one marker of extraneous sugar sources” detected....
Last year, the UK imported more than 38,000 tonnes of honey from China, where there is a known risk of adulteration with sugar syrup.
Consumers will be unaware of the true authenticity and provenance of their honey because country of origin labelling is not required for a blended product from more than one nation.
Arturo Carrillo, the Mexico-based coordinator of the international Honey Authenticity Network, told The Guardian: “The UK is flooded with very cheap adulterated honey imported from China. What is disappointing is that the British authorities have been very, very much reluctant to accept and address this tremendous problem.”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/03/26/uk-honey-fails-eu-authenticity-tests/
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