A huge food scandal has come to light regarding the importation of fake honey into the EU. The Agricultural Chamber and the beekeepers are furious and call on Brussels to take action.
“Priority for hard-working bees instead of hard-working counterfeiters: because food fraudsters from half the world are busy bottling honey on a large scale that is not honey at all. The deception of the consumer must end,” says Josef Moosbrugger, chairman of the Agriculture Chamber.
Products from China were mostly counterfeit
For the “exclusive” check, Brussels detectives went directly to the border posts to take samples from glass and even plastic jerry cans. The shocking result of the analyzes at the European Commission’s central laboratory: about half of the stick’s supposed sweetness was all different, but no honey. Because instead, a cheap mixture of sugar water, rice syrup and even artificial ingredients should and probably still will be on our breakfast tables. Incidentally, most products from China were counterfeit.
Moosbrugger therefore calls on the EU to provide the imitations with a quality seal, for example through precisely prescribed origin and content labels, together with an improved control system. This also protects the real natural bee products and thus the honest local beekeepers against cheap counterfeit products.
Source: Krone
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