Jul
19
2009
World Honey In Crisis
Posted by Andrew Routledge in Farming / Food production, Miscellaneous, Shipping, cellular physiology, cellular structure, export of food, food industry, food safety, irrigation, organic farming, tags: bees, chloramphinicol, colony collapse disorder, estrogen mimics, food safety, genetically modified soy bean, genetically modified sweet corn, honey, honey bees, honey industry, mobile phone antenna radiation, plastic poisoning, pollinating bees, slow release chemicals, slow release insecticides, species distructionThe world continues to watch in despair as the honey industry continues to tale huge knocks. In recent weeks vast quantities of honey imported from China to the USA were stopped at US ports after checks showed that the honey contained low to moderate quantities of Chloramphenicol, an antibiotic which is not approved for ingestion.
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