Toxic Honey Causes Illness in New Zealand
Holidaymakers Stricken By Toxic Honey
Sunday Star Times (New Zealand), 3/23/2003
http://apitherapy.blogspot.com/2008/03/toxic-honey-causes-illness-in-new.html
...The poison honey is produced by bees feeding on a native bush known as tutu. When they gather honeydew produced by the sap-sucking vine hopper insect feeding on the plants, they can introduce the poison tutin into honey.
National Beekeepers Association CEO Jim Edwards said suspect honey should not be thrown out, as that would return the poison to the food chain...
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