http://www.wbaltv.com/r/29730515/detail.html

(CNN) -- Most of the honey sold in chain stores 
across the country doesn't meet international 
quality standards for the sweet stuff, according 
to a Food Safety News analysis released this week.

One of the nation's leading melissopalynologists 
analyzed more than 60 jugs, jars and plastic bears 
of honey in 10 states and the District of Columbia 
for pollen content, Food Safety News said. He 
found that pollen was frequently filtered out of 
products labeled "honey." "The removal of these 
microscopic particles from deep within a flower 
would make the nectar flunk the quality standards 
set by most of the world's food safety agencies,"
the report says. "Without pollen there is no way 
to determine whether the honey came from
legitimate and safe sources."

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