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“Blended honey of unknown origin has been known to contain antibiotics, toxins, irradiated pollen or even alkaloids with the potential to cause organ damage,” the study said.

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It comes weeks after the honey industry was put under the spotlight in a joint investigation by the two media outlets in relation to imported honey.

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It strongly denied any issues with its products and criticised the type of test known as nuclear magnetic resolution (conducted in a German lab) used to detect the impurities, pointing out it differed from the official Australian test.

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canada goose outlet nyc Peter McDonald, chairman of the Australia Honey Bee Industry Council (AHBIC), a peak body for the industry, said it is up to the individual companies that actually buy the honey to then test. canada goose outlet nyc

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“I would say canada goose black friday sale there is not a problem in Australia, I am fully confident the Australian honey bee industry is clean and green and we have the best product in the canada goose clearance sale world.”

canada goose outlet store Xiaoteng Zhou decided to test Australian honey after a honey company was fined in Australia in 2016 for selling fake honey. canada goose outlet store

“Two years ago, in 2016, a commercial honey secret was revealed on Facebook and the honey sold in the supermarket might be toxic,” she told the ABC.

“It was claimed to be an Australia product but it was actually imported from overseas.

“These samples were analysed in Germany labs, so we were thinking, we do the analysis in Sydney? Then we designed this project and we collected samples and developed this method.”.