On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Chris Slade <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>
> Is that 0.9% of the honey or 0.9% of the pollen in the honey?  If the
> former, then, effectively GM pollen in honey would be allowed as the % of
> pollen
>  in honey has, normally, to be well under 1% (this is by eye and not
> through any  measurement that I've heard of).
>

I am really getting a sort of PhD in Euroburocacry following this GMO
issue.  This whole idea of pollen as an ingredient is crazy. I have been
following all this in my blog (unfortunatelly for most of you written in
spanish) You are invited to check under the label "transgenicos" and use
the google translator tool provided.
http://apiaraucania.blogspot.com/search/label/transgenicos

I mean is crazy because under Directive 2001/110/CE, anex II, apartado 3,
the content of unsolubable solids (of which pollen is a part of) can not be
more than  0,1 g/100 g (0,1%), therefore if honey fullfill that requirement
it will never have more than  0,9 % of GMO pollen in spite of all the
pollen being of GMO origin.


Juanse Barros J.
APIZUR S.A.
Carrera 695
Gorbea - CHILE
+56-45-271693
08-3613310
http://apiaraucania.blogspot.com/
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