Canadian Beekeepers are furious to find imported honey flooding their supermarket shelfs and it is cheap. So cheap the Canadian Honey Council has been urging the federal government to ramp up its efforts to inspect imported honey. They would like to see the Canadian Food Inspection Agency invest in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) testing, which can detect the sweetener’s composition and place of origin, and create a profile of domestic honey to compare imports against. The plummeting value of Canadian honey — which dropped nearly $53 million last year — is putting the family farm in peril, a situation he says is being exacerbated by the flow of cheap, watered-down products coming into the country. The Capilano Honey in the picture priced at $11kg is labelled product of Australia and GMO free Australia. Canadian Beekeepers are suspicious. They don’t know how this honey could be GMO free or 100% Australian and only be priced $11kg. I asked Capilano Ltd if this honey for sale in Gatineau, Quebec province, Canada was 100% Australian? Is it organic? Is it free from glyphosate and neonicotinoids? What’s is GMO free Australia and have GMO Australia a website? Merv Kickbush Export Manager Capilano Ltd refused to answer. M.kickbush@capilano.com.au “Australia’s biggest honey processor, Brisbane-based ASX-listed Capilano — 19 per cent owned by Kerry Stokes through his family investment vehicle Wroxby-ACE Investments — last year imported about 4000 tonnes of honey into Australia from a processing plant it owns in ­Argentina and also from China.” Australian beekeepers have called on the federal government to investigate the risk posed to the local $100 million honey industry and bee population by the recent jump in honey imports. Capilano Ltd buisnes model relies on using Australia’s reputation as a pristine country to sell honey overseas. No doubt Australia has some of the most pristine highest quality honey in the world but the problem is often the honey Capilano Honey exports appears Australian but is blended with Chinese honey. Capilano Ceo Ben McKee explains in the Chinese Daily "We used a lot of the honey from Argentina, as we have a plant there (producing honey) since 2013," Besides Argentina, the company also bought honey from Brazil, Hungary and China. As for Chinese honey, McKee said “the company purchased them in huge amounts” http://m.chinadaily.com.cn/en/2016-08/15/content_26480503.htm Beekeepers in Canada we feel your pain and are sorry an Australian corporation Capilano Ltd is contributing to the global honey laundering epidemic. There is not a beekeeper in Australia that I have met that thinks it is acceptable to blend Chinese honey with Australian honey and export it as product of Australia. Australian Beekeepers feel betrayed and have suffered with two consecutive years of dropping prices due to honey imports. Not only has imported honey devalued Australian honey domestically due to insufficient country of labelling laws - but it also has Australia listed as high risk for possible adulterated exported honey thus tarnishing our good name! - making it increasingly difficult for authentic honey producers to sell overseas. Australian award winning honey exporter Kim Fewster from http://ffhoney.com.au/ believes the exporting of blended foreign honey with Australian honey should be outlawed and we should look at New Zealand for a solution. New Zealand banned imports on honey and their honey industry is thriving. New Zealand Beekeepers are getting $12kg for Clover honey while Australians are receiving $4.70kg from Capilano Ltd. Global consumers are advised to buy honey direct where possible. goo.gl/vfhcQs Please Canada help us with our petition calling for country of Origin labelling on honey. goo.gl/BX7jCg End global honey laundering by supporting your local beekeeper.