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Adulterated Honey: Not Pure, and Not Simple Either But then, neither is honey
20 November 2023

The available figures on honey adulteration are pretty alarming: 46% of samples in the EU, 100% of honey exported from the UK, more than a quarter of Australian samples “of questionable authenticity”. However, as Matt Phillpott pointed out in a recent episode of Eat This Podcast, one of the great difficulties honey poses is that […]

Digging into contaminated cumin
14 May 2021

Someone decided it would be a good idea to defraud customers by diluting ground cumin with peanut shells

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