Re: OT - News Article of Interest about Food Fraud (honey included!)

[Guest guest]

I just finished reading on this topic in the Washington Post.

What concerned me as an SCD'er is that honey was mentioned as being messed

with--it's being adulterated by adding other sweeteners to it in other words.

Guess I'm gonna have to find a local source and not trust the grocery store

brand. I have a problem with fructose and can't eat fruit. Honey is my only

sweet food. Grrrr.

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> Interesting article about foods being intentionally mislabeled in order to

make more $$$....  It's sad to read that there's really no control in place to

police, catch, stop or punish the greedy who mislabel food to line their own

pockets

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> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36093999/ns/business-washington_post/

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> Here's a couple of quotes I found interesting

> " If it's not going to hurt or kill someone, FDA's resources are limited enough

that they can't take time to address [food fraud], "

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> Heinz USA and Kraft Foods, ...fell victim to " Operation Rotten Tomato, " a

conspiracy in which the scion of a California farming dynasty was indicted this

month. He was accused of disguising millions of pounds of moldy tomato paste as

a higher-grade product and selling it to foodmakers.

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> randomly sampled seafood from vendors between 1988 and 1997; ... found that 34

percent had been mislabeled and sold as a different species. In 2004, scientists

at the University of North Carolina estimated that 77 percent of snapper sold in

the United States is mislabeled.  

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[Guest guest]

I have read that cut honey never crystallizes.  Honey has great tasting/real honey and we buy it by the jug.  I think it's either Utah or Oregon.  It's very light and pretty-not amber colored.

 

I do sometimes buy the big bottles at Costco or Sam's but I only use it for baking.  It never crystallizes.

 

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