ALW get busted!

[Norton]

http://www.businessweek.com/article...the-largest-food-fraud-in-u-dot-s-dot-history

 

[dpearce4]

wow

 

[For want of a better word]

Makes a total nonsense of the "Global Village" !

And the BBKA asks their members NOT to import bees from foreign lands.... laughable in reality.

 

[BeeJayBee]

Good grief!

I think I read somewhere that Britain's shops sell more "Manuka" honey than is produced. So where does the excess come from, and how does it get its' ghastly flavour?

 

[alanf]

"Blended from EU and non EU honey"

As the article mentions in passing, much of the cheapest imported honey is used in breakfast cereal, baked goods and other products where the origin isn't on the label at all.
Could be from anywhere, but there's a lot of cheap honey leaving China that's now going somewhere else. Such as here.

 

[For want of a better word]

Good grief!

I think I read somewhere that Britain's shops sell more "Manuka" honey than is produced. So where does the excess come from, and how does it get its' ghastly flavour?

Chinese honey + all the Marmite the Danish refuse to import!