Re: Tests Show Most Store Honey Isn't Honey

Nice follow-up article on NPR:

Relax, Folks. It Really Is Honey After All
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2011/11/25/142659547/relax-folks-it-really-is-honey-after-all

tl;dr: Most honey packers filter their honey using diatomaceous earth
to keep the honey from crystallizing. This is not ultrafiltration, but
it does remove pollen. And Chinese honey is banned in the US primarily
because of a trade dispute, not for safety concerns.

Of course none of this rules out the "contaminated Chinese honey
smuggled in through ultrafiltration" scenario, and I'd assume that
some amount of that is indeed going on. But the original study was
only about lack of pollen in most commercial honey, which says nothing
about its origins.

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