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23 Μαρ 2023 · Food fraud: How genuine is your honey? Highly sensitive testing methods allow to test the authenticity of honey and help to identify suspicious honey samples. Competent law enforcement authorities can follow up and detect fraudulent adulteration of honey with added sugar syrup.
The European Parliament's report adopted in 2014 on "The food crisis, fraud in the food chain and the control thereof" identified 10 products, including honey, as being most at risk from fraud. What were the objectives of the control plan on honey?
The price difference between authentic honey and sugar syrups and the difficulty of detecting the extension of honey with syrups provide attractive fraud opportunities for dishonest business operators.
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23 Μαρ 2023 · The most frequent type of fraud with honey happens via adulteration, meaning by adding cheap ingredients instead of keeping the honey pure. But we also found instances of origin fraud, with labels claiming false origins of the product.
21 Μαρ 2023 · Today, the European Commission has published the results of the EU-wide coordinated action “From the Hives” on honey contaminated with sugars.
27 Μαρ 2023 · Nearly half of the honey imported into the European Union is suspected of being fake, according to an EU probe. The research, spearheaded by the European Commission’s Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF)...
In early 2024, in order to address instances of food fraud, such as honey adulteration that the operation uncovered, the European Council and European Parliament struck a deal on the so-called ‘Breakfast Directive’.
