![]() market for years.įood Safety News decided to test honey sold in various outlets after its earlier investigation found U.S. It is a spin-off of a technique refined by the Chinese, who have illegally dumped tons of their honey – some containing illegal antibiotics – on the U.S. Ultra filtering is a high-tech procedure where honey is heated, sometimes watered down and then forced at high pressure through extremely small filters to remove pollen, which is the only foolproof sign identifying the source of the honey. However, the FDA isn’t checking honey sold here to see if it contains pollen. ![]() In the U.S., the Food and Drug Administration says that any product that’s been ultra-filtered and no longer contains pollen isn’t honey. The food safety divisions of the World Health Organization, the European Commission and dozens of others also have ruled that without pollen there is no way to determine whether the honey came from legitimate and safe sources. ![]() The removal of these microscopic particles from deep within a flower would make the nectar flunk the quality standards set by most of the world’s food safety agencies. The results show that the pollen frequently has been filtered out of products labeled “honey.” grocery stores isn’t exactly what the bees produce, according to testing done exclusively for Food Safety News. More than three-fourths of the honey sold in U.S.
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