Honey is subjected to fraud by adulteration with low price sugar syrups. As a natural product with a relatively high price, honey has been for a long time a target for adulteration. The adulteration and misrepresentation of honey are major threats to
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Targetted surveillance testing by CFIA in 2018 found that 78% of the 240 honey samples collected from across Canada, were authentic, including 100% of Canadian honey sampled.
OTTAWA, July 9, 2019 /CNW/ - Surveillance and enforcement actions by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) prevented nearly 12,800 kg of adulterated honey, valued at close to $77,000, from entering the Canadian market, the Honourable Marie-Claud
Recent food fraud news includes the seizure of a million bags of fraudulently labeled and expired rice in Kenya, fraudulent spices found in a warehouse in India, and a U.S. grocery store chain sued for selling manuka honey that wasn’t 100% manuka. In
