The European Commission published, on Thursday 23 March the results of the EU-wide coordinated action ‘From the Hives’on honey contaminated with sugars, which shows that 46% of samples of honey imported from outside the EU are suspected to contain added syrups.
To kick-off the exercise, sixteen Member States (plus Norway and Switzerland) participated in a first phase, during which honey samples were collected at borders between November 2021 and February 2022. In a second step, the...