The sticky issue of honey fraud

For the first time in World Beekeeping Awards history, there will be no prize for honey at its congress, in Denmark next year, over “concerns about fraud in the global supply chain”, said Emma Rossiter on BBC News.

Apimondia, the International Federation of Beekeepers’ Associations, made the announcement on Saturday, revealing the decision was “necessitated by the inability to have honey fully tested for adulteration”.

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