Steve Levitt
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 31 Jul
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Roberts has worked on many different areas of food fraud, but one special focus of his has been adulterated honey.
And it's really hard to catch.
If I go to the grocery store today as an American shopper,
What are the most commonly adulterated food products that I'm likely to be purchasing?
To understand what's happening in honey, it helps to look at another industry that's been fighting the same battle for decades.
How do you do that?
What do they add for color?
The federal government does sometimes weigh in on the authenticity question through what's called a standard of identity.
So say something like peanut butter.
Peanut butter, there is a standard of identity.
I don't know what it is, but if you don't mean it, you can't call your thing peanut butter.
It was too hard.
Honey has never had a standard of identity in the United States.
Why does that matter for American honey producers?
There are still some voluntary standards for honey.
The scientific nonprofit U.S.
Pharmacopoeia has one, and the International Codex Alimentarius has another.
But none of them are legally binding in the United States.
One of the big reasons that tighter standards aren't in place is that adulterated honey isn't considered a food safety issue.
Compared to something like adulterated baby formula, it doesn't seem like such a big deal, right?
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