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Sep 3rd, 2018 at 8:08pm
 
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Australia's biggest listed honey company and some of the country's largest supermarket chains face accusations of unwittingly selling "fake" honey.

Testing at a leading international scientific lab that specialises in honey fraud detection has found that almost half the honey samples selected from supermarket shelves were "adulterated", meaning it has been mixed with something other than nectar from bees.

The adulterated samples were all products that blend local and imported honey.

ASX-listed Capilano's Allowrie-branded Mixed Blossom Honey, which sources honey from Australia and overseas, and markets itself as 100 per cent honey, showed up as "adulterated" in the majority of samples tested.

Capilano strongly denied any issues with its products and criticised the type of test — known as Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) — used to detect the impurities, pointing out that it differed from the official Australian test.

There is no suggestion that Capilano's eponymous brand of Australian-sourced honey has any issue or that Capilano or other brands were aware of the adulteration.

Phil McCabe, the president of the International Federation of Beekeepers' Association (Apimondia), believes the NMR test is the most accurate available and thinks consumers are not getting what they paid for.

"Adulterated honey isn't honey at all," he told 7.30.

"By and large [the impurity] is some kind of syrup that's been converted to look like honey, it tastes like honey.

"Everything about it seems to be honey, when in fact it's just sugar syrup or something else.


http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-03/capilano-and-supermarkets-accused-of-selli...

Must admit honey is one of the few things I buy and wrongly assume it is 100% Australian and don't check the label.  I will be more diligent in future although I checked my Manuka honey supplies in the pantry and it is 100% Australian.

I also missed this 2 months ago  ...

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Shoppers in Coles have one less choice to make when shopping for honey as the supermarket giant has dropped the Allowrie brand of honey, which is produced from mostly imported product by Australian company Capilano Honey.

The Allowrie brand is made from up to 70 per cent imported honey from countries including China, Argentina and Mexico.

The brand is the subject of a court case after a social media campaign raised questions about the origin and quality of the Allowrie brand.


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Reply #1 - Sep 3rd, 2018 at 8:10pm
 
Why the hell we import so many food products from third world countries, when the majority of Aussies would prefer 100% Australian, is beyond me.
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Reply #2 - Sep 3rd, 2018 at 8:25pm
 
Black Orchid wrote on Sep 3rd, 2018 at 8:10pm:
Why the hell we import so many food products from third world countries, when the majority of Aussies would prefer 100% Australian, is beyond me.



It's all about bean counters running companies &
customers wanting something for nothing.
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Reply #4 - Sep 3rd, 2018 at 8:35pm
 
I know it's all about the mighty dollar but I think enough people would be prepared to pay more for a product that isn't grown in a third world country with standards which barely exist, if at all.

Honey aside   ...   who would want to eat fruit grown in human excrement just because it is cheap?
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Reply #5 - Sep 3rd, 2018 at 8:36pm
 
miketrees wrote on Sep 3rd, 2018 at 8:26pm:
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No doubt some truth there but also recall we have just come out of a significant honey shortage.

There is also a supply problem, we eat a lot of honey, likely more than we produce.

Fake honey is disappointing though.
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Reply #6 - Sep 3rd, 2018 at 8:38pm
 
Black Orchid wrote on Sep 3rd, 2018 at 8:35pm:
I know it's all about the mighty dollar but I think enough people would be prepared to pay more for a product that isn't grown in a third world country with standards which barely exist, if at all.

Honey aside   ...   who would want to eat fruit grown in human excrement just because it is cheap?




What about bees gathering honey from flowers that
have been sprayed with pesticides?
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Reply #7 - Sep 3rd, 2018 at 8:41pm
 
Bobby. wrote on Sep 3rd, 2018 at 8:38pm:
Black Orchid wrote on Sep 3rd, 2018 at 8:35pm:
I know it's all about the mighty dollar but I think enough people would be prepared to pay more for a product that isn't grown in a third world country with standards which barely exist, if at all.

Honey aside   ...   who would want to eat fruit grown in human excrement just because it is cheap?




What about bees gathering honey from flowers that
have been sprayed with pesticides?


There are no regulations in most of these third world countries so God knows what we ingest.
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Reply #8 - Sep 3rd, 2018 at 8:51pm
 
Black Orchid wrote on Sep 3rd, 2018 at 8:41pm:
Bobby. wrote on Sep 3rd, 2018 at 8:38pm:
Black Orchid wrote on Sep 3rd, 2018 at 8:35pm:
I know it's all about the mighty dollar but I think enough people would be prepared to pay more for a product that isn't grown in a third world country with standards which barely exist, if at all.

Honey aside   ...   who would want to eat fruit grown in human excrement just because it is cheap?




What about bees gathering honey from flowers that
have been sprayed with pesticides?


There are no regulations in most of these third world countries so God knows what we ingest.



Those pesticides can kill you.
There was no mention of NMR tests to show pesticide residue.
I wonder why?
I know that NMR tests can easily pick up the signature of any molecule.
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Reply #9 - Sep 7th, 2018 at 2:27pm
 
I get how money can be saved for food manufacturers to use bulk honey in some processed food which has been bulked out with other sugar products, and it's probably not a bad thing, but for the average family who just wants table honey, seriously what the F?

It's not like it's a product you drown your food in so even if you buy the most expensive on, the per serving cost is nix.
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Reply #10 - Sep 7th, 2018 at 3:49pm
 
What i have been wondering since this started is what the heck is the substance or substances its adulterated with? THAT is never mentioned.

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Reply #11 - Sep 7th, 2018 at 4:06pm
 
Sir Spot of Borg wrote on Sep 7th, 2018 at 3:49pm:
What i have been wondering since this started is what the heck is the substance or substances its adulterated with? THAT is never mentioned.

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I believe it was palm oil & sugar
and they haven't mentioned pesticides - yet!
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Reply #12 - Sep 7th, 2018 at 4:09pm
 
Sir Spot of Borg wrote on Sep 7th, 2018 at 3:49pm:
What i have been wondering since this started is what the heck is the substance or substances its adulterated with? THAT is never mentioned.

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The 730 report mentioned it, sugars from either cane, beets or rice.Not harmful but fraudulent
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Reply #13 - Sep 8th, 2018 at 3:04pm
 
Honey is one of the few things that you don't expect should be tampered with.
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Reply #14 - Feb 6th, 2019 at 5:57pm
 
Honey made with sugar or something is harmful for health. Be aware this types of frauds.
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