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After honey s bitter reckoning with purity, will other types of packaged food categories come under the scanner next?
Honey is facing a bitter reckoning in India. The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), a Delhi-based public interest research and advocacy organisation, said on December 2 that major honey brands like Dabur, Patanjali and Emami (Zandu Pure Honey) had failed a key purity test conducted by a German laboratory.
Of samples of 13 honey brands that the CSE had sent for testing, Saffola Honey was the only big brand among the three which cleared the nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) test. It is administered across the world to test the purity of honey. While the test is not a norm in India, it is mandatory for honey meant for export.