Technical & Operations Director @ GO Superfoods | Board Member| Food Safety & Quality Governance| Technical, Scientific & Regulatory Compliance| Operations Management| Innovation & NPD Delivery| Sustainability & ESG
Let’s be clear about the scale of this “Global Honey Crisis”. The honey industry is facing a serious crisis. A staggering 60-90% of products labelled ‘honey’ are actually sugar syrup. Authorities at both national and EU levels are investigating this issue. Recent tests by the Honey Authenticity Network UK revealed that over 90% of samples from British retailers failed authenticity tests. To ensure you’re buying genuine honey, consider supporting local beekeepers or purchasing single source honey. Ultimately innovative, thinking and entrepreneurship will solve this crisis. If a contaminant can enter the food chain and left to circulate at this scale, it begs a question. Are technical leaders in the food industry playing their part, i.e. building supply chain resilience? Lucky the contaminant is an innocent contaminant.
Editor’s note: I raised this paragraph via the link below, but it did not respond in the usual way, and I was glad to get the above, albeit shaded version from it, as it emphasises the shameful nature of what is going on.
Thanks to David Parker for this information.