ILLINOIS: In the world of honey, it’s not all sweetness - (Chicago Tribune)
June 8, 2008 – 6:42 pmThe recent arrests of two Chicago-area executives shine a light on alleged honey trade practices that, according to this story, seem far from pure.
The executives, from a prominent honey importer based in Germany, are accused by federal authorities of what’s been called “honey laundering.” They allegedly disguised imported Chinese honey as Eastern European honey, an attempt to escape hefty anti-dumping duties aimed at China.
To make matters worse, federal authorities claim some honey imported by their firm was contaminated with chloramphenicol, a banned antibiotic that has troubled China’s huge honey industry in the past, long before recent scares over tainted Chinese products.
Honey laundering and contaminated honey have occasionally gone hand in hand. And while suspicions of honey laundering have dogged the industry for years, they rarely surface in the courts as they did in Chicago two weeks ago.
The story says that in late May, Magnus von Buddenbrock and Stefanie Giesselbach, both […]
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