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"Honey Laundering: the Sour Side of Nature's Golden Sweetener" [1]

"As crime sagas go, a scheme rigged by a sophisticated cartel of global traders has all the right blockbuster elements: clandestine movements of illegal substances through a network of co-operatives in Asia, a German conglomerate, jet-setting executives, doctored laboratory reports, high-profile takedowns and fearful turncoats.

What makes this worldwide drama unusual, other than being regarded as part of the largest food fraud in U.S. history, is the fact that honey, nature’s benign golden sweetener, is the lucrative contraband."

Jessica Leeder reports for the Toronto Globe and Mail January 5, 2011. [2]

Food [3]
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Source: Toronto Globe & Mail [2], 01/10/2011
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[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/honey-laundering-sour-side-nature%E2%80%99s-golden-sweetener [2] http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/science/honey-laundering-the-sour-side-of-natures-golden-sweetener/article1859410/singlepage/#articlecontent [3] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/food [4] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/environmental-health [5] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/agriculture [6] https://www.sej.org/category/region/international [7] https://www.sej.org/taxonomy/term/81