Antibiotics...in...my...honey?! WHUT?!

[lyssabard]

Ok. Right. Thank you, fabricdragon for posting this article on "honey laundering" with honey from China. Not only is it undercutting prices, but honey from China often contains animal antibiotics, and further details how people were going to a lot of lengths to avoid inspection for contaminants

Comments

[hummingwolf]

I wonder if there'll be honey at the farmers market today...

[lyssabard]

A good thing to check!

[mersipan]

I *think* the bee folk sell at the Ren Faire too...so y'know, faire trip. YAAAAY :D

[lyssabard]

Yes. Yes they do. :)

[rhiannasilel]

That's really disturbing, especially for someone like me that's allergic to almost every antibiotic out there. On top of that, I'm breastfeeding and trying to limit Skya's exposure to antibiotics so that if and when she ever actually needs them they'll be of benefit to her.

[lyssabard]

I know. It's screwy. Apparently, the use of antibiotics was to help restore China's most devastated bee population. Still...gah.

[thewronghands]

Local honey is better anyway -- having it regularly has killed my seasonal plant-based allergies. Go local honey!

[rialian]

===Not surprising in the least. Then there is the mercury turning up in low-grade corn syrup that is fed to some bees to tide them over on long trips/overwintering, when they are not left with their own stocks...
===I am looking at 2 more hives in another week, building them up, splitting and more queens coming in around June, so by next year I should have some production going on.

[teaotter]

Great. We usually buy local for ourselves, that's easy. But now I get to go interrogate my bakery, too (they use it in bread).