Ensuring Honey's Authenticity
Honey is a frequently adulterated product, but certification efforts attempt to mitigate the scope of the problem and ensure product quality.
Honey comes quickly to experts’ lips as one of the most highly victimized food commodities. Maintaining authenticity of supply is a continuing challenge to apiarists and honey processors around the world, at the same time that the industry is battling the pervasive problem of beehive collapse and the disappearance of ecosystems that support bees and other pollinators.
“It’s the most adulterated product in the world,” says Deleo de Leonardis, founder of food analysis startu…
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Ensuring Honey's Authenticity
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