This white paper is from the Institute of International and European Affairs, a non-profit charity that is Ireland’s leading international affairs think tank.
The paper tracks the suspicions of honey fraud and subsequent investigations and surveillance monitoring plans over the past decade, leading up to the EU legislation changes in the Breakfast Directive. The paper makes the case that without this large-scale co-ordinated action and evidence-gathering, the possibility of wide scale fraud might never have been taken sufficiently seriously. It reviews the effectiveness of the current EU regulations and international cooperation efforts that are designed to detect and prevent honey adulteration and asks what technological and legislative improvements can be deployed to protect consumers and support EU honey producers. It concludes by looking to the future and how honey fraud might be tackled on a local, national, and international level
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