--- On Fri, 11/11/11, Peter Chiang Mai <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

  There is
> discussion about whether or not pollen should be removed
> from honey and whether this impacts a description of what
> honey really is.  

> At the end of the day it is the difference between quality
> and quantity.  It is therefore very necessary to
> consider how to approach the market.  The China flow
> (or wherever else honey is abundant and  cheap) will
> not be stopped so perhaps it is best to set sights for that
> part of the market where you can survive.

reply:
Again, there is a machine out and used past 1-2 years or so for testing honey for adulteration that when talked about in Mass/Fla I belive showed beet sugar and HFCS was in the honey, showing adulteration to me. So if lab analysis is available for real honey, then even if pollen and propolis is filtered out, it would show non-real honey............and the machine is made in USA too!

Then if you want to put back say real pollen for making beebread paddies for feeding to honeybees, along with honey, you can do it.

So hasn't this machine been added to official testing criteria for filtered honey to show end product is real honey, which would eliminate a lot of foeign honey not real!.......

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