Over the years, I have always included honey in my diet; in fact, I consider it a super food. I have some special recipes that I use that include honey. It is said that if you have allergies and eat the local honey at the beginning of the season, you will become immune to the local pollen that affects those allergies. This is well known and works very well.
Not long ago, an acquaintance sent me information from a viral email about the honey we eat; “Does honey contain botulism? Honey may contain botulism spores that can lead to botulism poisoning. There are some areas in the US where possible contamination of honey with botulism spores is higher due to soil. Soil contains Botulism spores / bacteria and the flora that bees use to feed themselves grow in that soil. Honey is consumed primarily in raw form and is generally not pasteurized, sterilized, or irradiated. Even pasteurized honey can contain spores of botulism and should not be given to children under 12 months of age. “
Now it seems to me that we might also want to be very tired because more and more honey is coming from China, and I know they don’t give a damn about the quality of their soil. The BBC recently published an interesting article on the challenges of contaminated soil, published on April 18, 2014, titled; “Report: One-fifth of China’s soil is contaminated,” and we also import a ton of honey from China, according to a Food Safety News article published on August 15, 2014 titled; “Asian honey, banned in Europe, is flooding the shelves of US supermarkets: The FDA has the necessary laws to keep adulterated honey off store shelves, but only recently, says the food industry. honey “, by Andrew Schneider, who also pointed out that the EU has already banned China, please pass on this information as well.
Our local FDA controls US farmers, and there will probably be local controls at farmers markets as well, but did you know that only 2% of freight containers coming from China are controlled? What about our FDA, do they have offices in China? If two. Two offices across the country, folks, we need to think here, we need to know what’s in that honey, yeah, we need to know more about all the food products for that, but listen, honey, this is one we need to keep an eye on. too. In fact, I hope you will please consider all of that and think about it.