"Fake" Honey Leads to Federal Prosecution

http://www.justice.gov/usao/iln/pr/chicago/2013/pr0220_02.html

The US Attorneys office in Northern Illinois have charged two of America's largest honey providers and 5 individuals with illegally importing Chinese honey and selling it as honey from other sources.

The basis for the prosecution is on avoiding the tariff to prevent dumping of cheap Chinese honey. The tariff is based both on protection of domestic honey producers and the consumer, since Chinese honey has contained banned antibiotics and toxic metals.

The unfortunate part for us in SoCal is that one of the charged honey companies is Groeb Farms, who package honey under the "Millers Honey" name out of Colton.