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Is this statement correct?
As of 2021, honey cannot be certified organic by the USDA. Any honey Certified Organic honey sold in the United States is imported from other countries and certified organic by that country. The imported organic honey is not certified Organic by the United States.
The USDA recognizes other countries’ organic certification, so if it’s good enough for the other countries’ government, it’s good enough for the US. Hopefully, you can see the potential problem with this. Especially because most of the organic honey comes from Brazil. And Brazil has had a lot of issues with bribery and fraud in their government.
A US beekeeper or company can have non-certified organic, pure honey that is raised organically. But it is nearly impossible to produce organic honey that can qualify for an organic label from the USDA. This applies to all
Also, US beekeepers are currently unable to make any organic claims for their own honey. Beekeepers are not allowed to make any organic claims unless the USDA says they can. Is the government going to drop the hammer on the guy at the farmers market saying they have organic raw honey? Probably not, but those are the rules.
Jerry
P.S.
Based on decades of analysis, given the distances that bees can fly, I doubt that any honey is contaminant free, although honey overall is orders of magnitude 'cleaner' than pollen or the bees themselves.
Even in the most remote areas of Montana, away from heavy agriculture, I can still find detectable levels of things like the old chlorinated pesticides, radionuclides, and other global pollutants.
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