World Bee Day & The Fake Honey Saga

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World Bee Day & The Fake Honey Saga Monday was World Bee Day (said quickly takes on a meaning I don’t think the organisers intended) and there was a plethora of stories about the state of the world’s bee populations, domestic and wild. Curiously I didn’t come across anything about last year’s fake honey scandal […]

Sweet victory for local honey hero / Bee aware at CERES

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Sweet victory for local honey hero   Three years ago Victorian beekeeper, Simon Mulvany (that’s him above), began blowing the whistle on commercial honey giant Capilano Honey for blending cheap Chinese honey with Australian honey in its budget Allowrie brand. Chinese honey according to Simon contains high levels of antibiotics, chemical residues and diseases like foul brood which can […]