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The EU has allowed large scale imports of chinese fake honey for the last 20 years. All of the beekeeper associations complain about it, regularly conduct lab
by Saline9515 4mo ago
The EU has allowed large scale imports of chinese fake honey for the last 20 years.
All of the beekeeper associations complain about it, regularly conduct lab tests with honeys from supermarkets, most of them being not honey, or mixed with fake honey.
The EU of course has done nothing : the beekeepers aren't powerful enough to distribute the right bribes to the right people. Meanwhile the consumers buy glucose syrup at 15€/kg.
But hey, we have USB-C! It evenS out, right?
- Hikikomori 4mo agoIts up to individual countries to do it no? They've been testing honey here recently and several brands got removed from stores.
- Saline9515 4mo agoNo, it's up to the EU to stop imports from China. It's not possible for individual countries to do it: - Lab testing is complex, requires to identify the DNA of pollens in honey and few countries can do it at the moment. - Honeys are mixed, so it's trivial to receive fake honey in a country that allows it, mix it, and reexport to another one that forbids it. Same happens with olive oils, no one cares. - Many brands just lie, given that there is no enforcement regarding food traceability and safety in general in the EU (it's a meme to reassure consumers). Where I live a brand advertising "locally made honey" was found to sell glucose syrup : nothing happened.
- Hikikomori 4mo agoDoes the EU have a centralized food testing agency?
- Saline9515 4mo agoIt does have a food safety agency, but this is a classic international trade problem that is solved at the border since the EU is a trade union.
- spwa4 4mo agoOr in this case - purposefully NOT solved. Who wants to bet "Mercosur" agricultural products won't be checked at the border and will - surprise - turn out to have "issues". Has the forced labor agriculture in South America been solved yet? Nope: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_trafficking_in_South_America#History_of_human_trafficking_in_the_region https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_trafficking_in_South_Ame... I guess not. Will the EU check? Hah! Has nature protection been solved yet? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deforestation_in_Brazil https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deforestation_in_Brazil Nope. Will the EU check? Hah! The EU makes their companies to compete against slavery. First in China, religious-ethnic slavery. Now in South America, also mostly ethnic slavery.
- Saline9515 4mo agoWhatever it takes to sell BMWs !
- Hikikomori 4mo agoThat's what the individual countries are supposed to do.