FSSAI notifies honey stds to curb adulteration and strengthen quality

With the need to curb rampant adulteration in honey and further strengthen its quality, FSSAI, the country’s apex food regulator, has notified the standards for honey. It has further initiated a probe into various popular brands products to check the authenticity of honey. Lately, honey had been under the scanner due to adulteration, through the use of various artificial colours and sugars. Adulterated commonly with corn and rice syrup, cane and beet sugars and sulphite-ammonia caramel, the drop in production and the consequent increase in market prices mainly leads to such falsification practices. Samples of the companies like Dabur, Zandu, Patanjali and others have been already taken. An official from FSSAI said, “A lot has been going on with regards to the honey sold in the market. There has been a growing concern amongst the public of honey being adulterated with corn or sugar syrup.”