今天看外国一家
蜂蜜行业的网站查阅技术资料,突然看到标题为
Chinese Honey
What's In There?
看到chinese这是中国人蜂蜜那么就要点开看看内容了。结果内容让我吃惊。
We all know how much the notoriety of Chinese honey has swelled over the years from the horrendous reports on honey frauds and honey laundering business in China that are pouring through the media. According to the China Bee Products Association, half of the honey sold in China is fake. Shanghai Daily (2013) reported that cheap honey sold by street vendors is virtually all fake. It is hard to differentiate the fake one and the real one as technologies for manufacturing fake honey products have become so advanced that even fake honeycomb made of gum and fake honey can pass traditional tests for flavonoid plant compounds and the oxidation index.
The story of Tara Bambrick, someone whom I bumped into virtually, would again make you think twice about buying Chinese honey. Despite having visited China a number of times, it's still quite an eye-opener for me to see Tara's picture of a Chinese beekeeper selling honey right from a red plastic pail. The fact that there are people who actually care (or dare) to buy from these beekeepers on the streets just blows my mind. Thanks, Tara for sharing with us. I love your story.
翻译内容为:
我们都多少知道些中国蜂蜜的恶名已经膨胀多年,从可怕的蜂蜜欺诈和蜂蜜洗钱报告将通过媒体在中国的业务。根据中国
蜂产品协会,蜂蜜在中国销售的一半是假的。上海日报(2013)报道,廉价的街头小贩出售的蜂蜜是几乎所有都是假的。很难区分假的和真正的,作为制造假蜂蜜产品的技术已经非常先进,甚至掺糖的假蜂窝和假蜂蜜可以通过传统测试植物黄酮类化合物和氧化指数。塔拉贝母克的故事,我几乎撞到人,将再次让你考虑购买中国蜂蜜。尽管多次访问中国,对我来说仍然很大开眼界看到中国
养蜂人卖蜂蜜的照片从一个红色的塑料水桶。实际上有些人关心的事实(或敢)从这些养蜂人在街上买就打击我的心灵。谢谢,塔拉与我们分享。我喜欢你的故事。
By Tara Bambrick
Chinese honey production, like in so many areas of commerce, is suffering from a great deal of bad press. Why? China may still be communist, but they have a capitalist love of money that is in no way new. And seldom do love of money and careful adherence to quality and safety standards go together. Send out a bad product and someone is going to notice.
Do the actions of companies that get caught reflect the actions of everyone? Likely not, but the damage has been done. I am currently living in China and worked my way through my third jar of honey produced by this country (the three of them pictured in order here). The third jar is actually made in Hunan province where I live, and it tastes the best out of the three jars I've sampled. On the truly local front, I have met a local beekeeper selling honey on the street. This site will be updated as experiences are accumulated. In the meantime, I'll outline issues and what I have learned personally below. I have a separate page that serves as a photo gallery of bees and other flying insects that I encounter here in China and other Asian countries if I get a chance to visit.
China as a Honey Producer and Exporter
China is a major producer of honey - as of 2006, they account for 25% of all exported honey in the world and 20% of the total world output of honey. Its major competitors are Argentina and Mexico. China only exports about 27% of their total output, and unlike many countries, they have kept their prices well under the international average, and thus stable.1 Despite this competitive advantage, they fight with trade bans due to a variety of reasons, including failure to comply with standards.
Traces of Antibiotics and Honey-Laundering
Chinese honey has become synonymous with 'tainted honey' and 'honey laundering'. In the former, antibiotics such as Chloramphenicol have been discovered in trace amounts in Chinese imports.2,3 Some of these antibiotics are known to cause blood disorders, although it is unknown whether the amounts found in the honey are harmful. Further, the imported honey is low-grade and destined to be further diluted before human consumption.
In the latter issue - 'honey laundering' - to avoid paying duties that are imposed by various countries on Chinese honey, China will often route their product through other countries.4 The honey will often undergo filtering to remove traces of pollen that can identify the source of the honey, or the end product is often labelled as another substance.
文章中贴出很多中国的品牌蜂蜜,不管其是真是假,因非我国食品监督局纰漏的信息且非我国主流媒体广而告之的内容涉及其他厂家出厂品牌我们就不予以转载公布了。有兴趣的可以自己去查阅。
这位蜂农被洋人拿到文章中讲述自己的经历。说是湖南的蜂农。
我们知道它很容易得到中国以外的中国蜂蜜——它存在于民族品牌,“垃圾”亲爱的,你到处都可以买到。你怎么能在中国购
买蜂蜜吗?
看到这里,你作为蜂蜜行业的从业者是否当自省。我们是不是应当做些什么呢。
虽然本文中曝光了某些中国蜂蜜产业的某些黑暗面,我们不能因为这些负面的报道一棍子打死,还是很多坚持出售真蜂蜜和原蜜的蜂农他们和农民一样可敬和辛劳。
请诸位看官正面理解本文表述的意思。