Honey Laundering: Tainted product still slips easily into U.S.
Officials are rarely notified
"If we buy Chinese honey, as we do far too often, we know it may contain chloramphenicol or some other antibiotic that is illegal in any food product," said Brady, who produces about a million pounds of honey a year. "To find it and not report it is criminal."
Two-thirds of the honey Americans consume is imported and almost half of that, regardless of what's on the label, comes from China, the Seattle P-I reported last month.
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This also may be the reason millions of bee's or dying around this country, and nobody knows why. Honey bees are an important part of the food chain and we will regret the day when they are killed off.