{"id":9937,"date":"2018-09-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/aussie-companies-have-been-accused-of-selling-fake-honey\/"},"modified":"2018-09-03T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-03T00:00:00","slug":"aussie-companies-have-been-accused-of-selling-fake-honey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/aussie-companies-have-been-accused-of-selling-fake-honey\/","title":{"rendered":"Aussie Companies Have Been Accused Of Selling Fake Honey"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Australia\u2019s biggest honey brand and some of the country\u2019s largest supermarkets have been accused of selling fake honey, according to a report.<\/h3>\n<p>According to Fairfax:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cTesting at a leading international scientific lab that specialises in honey fraud detection has found almost half the samples selected from supermarket shelves was \u2018adulterated\u2019, meaning it had been mixed with other substances. The adulterated samples were all products that blend local and imported honey.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCapilano\u2019s Allowrie branded Mixed Blossom Honey, which sources honey from Australia and overseas, and markets itself as 100 per cent honey, showed up as \u201cadulterated\u201d in the majority of samples tested.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExperts say adulterated honey was generally bulked up with rice syrup and beet syrup and other unidentified substances, which aren\u2019t detected by official honey tests.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInternational fraudsters, often criminal gangs in China, produce the fake honey and sell it to unsuspecting suppliers at a higher price, making a fortune along the way.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Think you\u2019re buying &#39;100 per cent pure honey&#39;? Think again <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/26XhFczZyS\">https:\/\/t.co\/26XhFczZyS<\/a><\/p>&mdash; The Sydney Morning Herald (@smh) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/smh\/status\/1036348916629942272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 2, 2018<\/a><\/blockquote>&#13;\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia\u2019s biggest honey brand and some of the country\u2019s largest supermarkets have been accused of selling fake honey, according to a report. According to Fairfax: \u201cTesting at a leading international scientific lab that specialises in honey fraud detection has found almost half the samples selected from supermarket shelves was \u2018adulterated\u2019, meaning it had been mixed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":4568,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-9937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Aussie Companies Have Been Accused Of Selling Fake Honey - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/aussie-companies-have-been-accused-of-selling-fake-honey\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Aussie Companies Have Been Accused Of Selling Fake Honey\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Australia\u2019s biggest honey brand and some of the country\u2019s largest supermarkets have been accused of selling fake honey, according to a report. 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