Asia Sends European-Banned Honey To U.S. Shores

A third or more of all the honey consumed in the U.S. is likely to have been smuggled in from China and may be tainted with illegal antibiotics and heavy metals.  A Food Safety News investigation has documented that millions of pounds of honey banned as unsafe in dozens of countries are being imported and sold here in record quantities. 

The Summer Edition Is Here!

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Wolff Honey To Be Destroyed

A U.S. District Court Judge has ordered the honey seized in the Alfred L. Wolff import fraud case destroyed. The 2,441 drums of honey is being held at various locations, mostly in the Chicago area.

Read the Degree of Forfeiture here.

Foreword: Tight Government Budgets Call for Tough Choices

By Troy Fore, Editor/Publisher

Spending money is easy. Saving money is difficult. We already knew that – individually. We are now learning that lesson collectively – as a nation, in our states, and in our local governments.

The Spring 2011 Edition Is Here!

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The Foreword: The More Things Change – Winter 2010

This is from the “The More things Change …” department.

A subscriber (actually a former subscriber’s daughter, if memory serves) recently sent me an old issue of The Bee she had come across. It was 27 years old – May 1983.

Several of the items in the beekeeping news nearly three decades back seemed current. Unfortunately, some dealt with vexing problems that have yet to be solved.

Taiwanese Honey Importer Gets 30 Months For Illegal Imports

Chicago-A Taiwanese executive of several honey import companies was sentenced to 30 months in prison Friday, Nov. 5 for conspiring to avoid more than $5 million in U.S. anti-dumping duties by illegally importing Chinese-origin honey that was falsely identified as coming from South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and India. This sentence resulted from an investigation conducted [...]

Progress on the Colony Collapse Front – But Research Methods Are Challenged

From out of the West came a report from Dr. Jerry Bromenshenk and his colleagues that seemed to indicate that the cause of CCD had been discovered. Then, just as the hurrahs died out, a voice from the Fortune yelled, “Not so fast!” Then, people quickly began to choose sides. Here is the claim, the counterclaim, and the counter-counterclaim.

Bromenshenk Responds to Fortune’s Accusations

In a posting on the BEE-L listserv, Jerry Bromenshenk responded to Katherine Eban’s charges about his research: