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The Center for Science and Environment (CSE) revealed today that honey sold by many significant brands in India was discovered to be adulterated with sugar syrup.
They picked 13 top and smaller brands to verify their purity. 77 per cent of the samples were found to have been adulterated with sugar syrup. Just five out of the 22 samples tested passed all the tests.
Honey samples from leading brands such as Dabur, Patanjali, Baidyanath, Zandu, Hitkari and Apis Himalaya, all failed the NMR (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance) test.
The tests were first done in Gujarat in which all of them passed, except for a few smaller brands which failed to detect C4 sugar test. But when the same brands were tested using NMR in a specialised lab in Germany, almost all big and small brands failed. Out of the 13 brands tests, only three passed the NMR test.
Some Chinese companies advertised fructose syrup, which can beat C3 and C4 tests. These syrups were also exported to India. Even if 50-80 per cent of the honey is adulterated with syrup, it would pass all stipulated tests.
"If honey is adulterated, then not only do we lose our health, but also the productivity of our agriculture," Sunita Narain, CSE director general said.
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