Virtually all packing plants, anywhere in the world, degrade the honey a bit in the process of packaging it and stablizing it for mass distribution, but this is extreme. Additionally, some such offshore plants add cheap sugars to lower their cost, then obscure the origin by trans-shipping through various countries.

It would be a mistake to say that all Chinese exporters cheat and adulterate the product, since China is a huge country and there are many honest and hard-working people there. It is just that an opportunistic and unscrupulous group have given the rest a black eye.

For consumers, knowledge is power. Some buy honey for its heath benefits and some as medicine, so they need to know that it is pure, unheated, and unfiltered and the smart ones go direct to their local beekeeper and bypass all the processing to get the ‘raw’ product from a known source. Other than contaminants like the antibiotics mentioned, there are very few health risks in honey.

For those who just want something sweet, store shelf honey is fine, and increased scrutiny and improved technology have reduced the risks to virtually nil, but many want the best and to know the source. Some want to support the country’s beekeepers who also pollinate the agricultural crops. You can import honey, but you cannot import pollination.

In North America, the food handling standards are high, too high, maybe buton some of these supplier countries, they are non-existent, and where the food originates can be quite shocking, Many are just fine, but people should be able to decide for themselves.

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