80 % of the honey samples are adulterated!

[Greg V]

This is latest from Germany - 80% of the tested honey samples (by the DNA testing) are adulterated.

The US is no different.

Please disseminate this information around.
Our customers should know.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thx5Duzq4UI

[BETSY TRUE]

Adulterated with what?

Non honey syrup?

On Sep 26, 2024, at 1:27 PM, Greg V <voro...@gmail.com> wrote:

This is latest from Germany - 80% of the tested honey samples (by the DNA testing) are adulterated.

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[Greg V]

See the video.

But very briefly:

- the fake honey producers became very good at replicating the sugar composition of the honey - by just sugar testing it becomes near impossible to tell the fake from real apart

- the real honey should have certain and expected DNA pollution level in it - DNA coming from pollen, plants, bees themselves where the pollen/plants specific to a locality of honey production

- the fake honey does not demonstrate (yet) expected DNA signature of the real honey - this is how they separated apart the fake honeys

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[BETSY TRUE]

We had a Madbees meeting with some researchers, some years ago, who were using a different analysis for this. Do we know who and where they are? They were looking for funding, so may have dropped out of the landscape.

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[John Thompson]

There's a company called melliafloral (spelling?) that does DNA testing on your honey. They focus on what it's made of, maybe not foreign DNA in i

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[Jeff Steinhauer]

Five or six years ago there was a researcher from the UW (i believe) that was asking for honey samples.  He came over and collected a couple from me right off a frame.