honey producer, china. in order to protect american beekeepers from price dumping, the u.s. imposed a high tariff, but china has found a work around by smuggling it through other countries. it turns out that pesticides and other contaminants including antibiotics banned in the united states for acute toxicity have been found in the chinese honey. good news, you can test where the honey comes from by testing pollen. bad news, large scale often remove pollen from the honey. they say it's to make it more palatable for u.s. consumers but also any trace of where the honey comes from. it's estimated of the over 40 million pounds of honey shipped to america, less than 5% is checked by the fda which makes me wonder, how well do we know where our food is coming from? so i'm going to do a little experiment on supermarket honey.