Hello All,
A beekeeper from Australia Warren Taylor says 2500 tons of Chinese honey was
illegally shipped through Australia in his letter to the American Bee
Journal editor (August 2003 pg. 592). Warren Is also afraid the Chinese
honey will ruin the Australia domestic market as the Chinese honey does the
U.S. market.

Consumers clearly need to know the source of the honey they are buying!

If the FDA confiscated 266,000 pounds  on contaminated Chinese honey what
happened to the rest?

 The Australia / Chinese honey should be easy to trace through bill of
ladings.

Should not the tarriffs on Chinese honey be collected from the Australian
packers ?

Is it not time to quit letting packers use a blanket label with half a dozen
countries as possible sources on their jars and be more specific?

Should not the label contain the amount of foreign honey in each blend?

The packers have got deep pockets and will fight the above with all their
power but I wonder what the list thinks?

Bob

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