It's an unfair cop?

[Poly Hive]

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesal...-honey-packer-admits-laundering-chinese-honey

PH

 

[Karsal]

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesal...-honey-packer-admits-laundering-chinese-honey

PH

The importation of cheap Chinese honey and passing it off as local honey probably occurs in most counties.

 

[viridens]

It's old news (2013), but I'd say it's a very fair cop. Knowingly selling on mis-labelled honey for extra profit should put them on the naughty step.
And it is widespread.
One example (How Europe is being flooded fake honey) here: https://www.euractiv.com/section/agriculture-food/news/honeygate-how-europe-is-being-flooded-with-fake-honey/
Another (Maltese honey) here: https://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20150526/local/dont-get-stung-by-sale-of-fake-maltese-honey.569733

 

[Hedgerow Honey]

There is a guy in the same market as me selling unlabelled 12oz local honey for £3, he claims his neighbour has ten hives in the garden and just wants rid of it cheap but suspiciously it is kept in a cardboard box out of view under his table and only comes out when asked for, I sent a mate to investigate when customers were telling me I was expensive, annoyingly trading standards are not interested.

 

[wightbees]

Get some, maybe someone here would look at it under scope, might reveal something?

 

[B+.]

There is a guy in the same market as me selling unlabelled 12oz local honey for £3, he claims his neighbour has ten hives in the garden and just wants rid of it cheap but suspiciously it is kept in a cardboard box out of view under his table and only comes out when asked for, I sent a mate to investigate when customers were telling me I was expensive, annoyingly trading standards are not interested.

If he is selling it as honey, that is an offence against the Honey regulations 2015 (http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/1348/made). I would have thought trading standards would be obliged to investigate

 

[Eyeman]

If he is selling it as honey, that is an offence against the Honey regulations 2015 (http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/1348/made). I would have thought trading standards would be obliged to investigate

Trading standards institute: consumers are no longer protected

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2...s-institute-consumers-are-no-longer-protected

 

[alldigging]

trading standards are not interested.

Who runs the market?
Do they check people's PLI?

 

[Hedgerow Honey]

Yes they do, and take copy's of certificates. As said might be worth buying a jar. I would imagine very few on here would sell genuine honey at that price, he is also selling pickles in used jars ( onions in kenco jars) and encouraging people to return the jars to cut cost and under cut me. Interestingly three new customers today bought from him two weeks ago and found the onions on the top when they opened the jars to be rotten. He only started selling about six weeks after we started the stall, pickles and honey are things he never used to sell.

 

[Beefriendly]

If you have a decent market manager he should sort it for you. Most markets I sell at only allow one seller of one product....so on some I can't sell honey as already a honey seller there before me.
Sometimes the managers don't know there is a problem until you tell them.