[Sca-cooks] It's Not US Honey??

[Dan Brewer]

If you read the news about honey  there are many ways to take corn surup
and blend it to act and taste something like honey.  Honey that has had the
polen removed has been heated to almost the boiling point.  This negates
the healthy effects of the honey.  Also if the pollen has been removed or
can not be found it is to hide the point of origin.  I raise bees, and have
had a hive for about  10 years .  Honey at its best would be just extracted
from the comb.  Raw honey is only run through enough filtering to remove
wax and bee parts.  To remove any more from the honey you need to heat it
to force it through filters.  So if you want a better quality honey buy
from a local aviary and look to see if the country of origin is the US.
Honey from Canada is considered safe but all other countries are considered
suspect.

Dan in Auburn


On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 11:57 AM, Laureen Hart <lhart at graycomputer.com>wrote:

> OK, so they didn't find the pollen. The big manufactures have a better
> ability to filter than your average farmer's market supplier.
> Did they do any testing for the antibiotics, heavy metals, etc?
> Lack of pollen doesn't immediately mean the product is tainted.
> If the argument is that the products are tainted, why aren't they testing
> for contaminants?
> If a home Britta or Pure water filter can filter out heavy metals why would
> the filters for the honey not be capable of filtering out the heavy metals?
>
> Hopefully you have good Farmer's Markets, some have come under scrutiny for
> batching non local stuff with their local stuff and passing it off. I don't
> think that is widespread, I don't think it is dangerous. My point here is -
> some people will try to cheat.
>
> Honey under USDA supervision has rules in place for country or origin. I
> have worked in the food industry under USDA inspectors, those guys don't
> mess around. It is no skin off their nose if they close your plant down, or
> make you recall a huge shipment. A large plant would be hard pressed to
> sneak huge quantities of foreign honey into production past a USDA
> inspector. Below is a link to the USDA:
>
>
> http://www.ams.usda.gov/AMSv1.0/ams.fetchTemplateData.do?template=TemplateU&
>
> navID=&page=Newsroom&resultType=Details&dDocName=STELPRDC5078095&dID=115447&
>
> wf=false&description=USDA+Revises+Regulations+to+Include+Country+of+Origin+L
> abeling+of+Honey+&topNav=Hom<http://www.ams.usda.gov/AMSv1.0/ams.fetchTemplateData.do?template=TemplateU&%0AnavID=&page=Newsroom&resultType=Details&dDocName=STELPRDC5078095&dID=115447&%0Awf=false&description=USDA+Revises+Regulations+to+Include+Country+of+Origin+L%0Aabeling+of+Honey+&topNav=Hom>
>
> That is not to say that it couldn't happen with USDA inspected honey. But
> damning the entire commercial honey industry without proof that the product
> is contaminated is pretty rude. Which is more important - that the honey is
> safe, or that it is from the US?
>
> Randell Raye
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Subject: [Sca-cooks] It's Not Honey??
>
> Greetings!  Found this article this morning about problems with honey
> which is a bit dismaying.  Maybe health food stores would be better
> sources for honey?  (Or the honey merchant at Pennsic!) Take a look at
> http://tinyurl.com/86aemt7 .
>
>
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