Real Honey

The dairy industry isn't the only group fighting incorrect or misleading food labeling. Honey producers are asking the Food and Drug Administration to establish a national definition of honey. You may be asking yourself, honey is honey right? Wrong. Apparently there's a lot of product on supermarket shelves labeled as honey consisting mainly of other sugars with a little bit of real honey thrown in. According to George Hansen, the vice president of the American Beekeeper Federation, honey producers first petitioned the FDA to address this problem in 2006. Their response to honey producers was dissappointing and lacking to say the least. FDA officials say they just don't have the time or resources to investigate or implement a change in honey labeling. Excuse me! Seems the FDA's typical response to such requests anymore consists of the "no time, no money" mantra. When you stop to consider that honey producers are not just talking about jars of honey, but about all the products that tout honey as an ingredient such as sauces, cereals, and breads, quite a list really, then it definitely becomes a more tantamount request.