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- 2/17 — Snack Food and Wholesale Bakery — Traceability provides transparency, clarity in the supply chain
- 2/17 — ABC News Chicago — Counterfeit cuisine? How food fraud can get into your kitchen.
- 1/17 — National Culinary Review — Let's Talk About True Source Honey
- 10/16 — Chef Magazine — Help In Fight Against Counterfeit Honey
- 5/5/16 — CBS Chicago — 60 tons of illegally imported Chinese honey destined for U.S. consumers seized by U.S. Immigration and Customs
- 3/29/15 — Houston Chronicle — Honey smuggler busted, but many others evade authorities
- 3/7/15 — Pittsburgh Tribune — Foreign Producers Import Adulterated Honey
- 1/28/15 — Houston Chronicle — HSI, CBP in Houston seize illegally imported honey valued at $2.45 million
- 4/14/14 — Food Navigator — FDA honey guidance: a response to labeling litigation?
- 11/19/13 — Food Navigator — True Source Honey considers manufacturer-specific verification system
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9/19/13 — Bloomberg Businessweek — The Honey Launderers: Uncovering the Largest Food Fraud in U.S. History
5/5/13 — Modern Farmer — Honey Laundering: A Primer
2/27/13 — Corporate Crime Reporter — Why Were Honey Companies Given Deferred Prosecution Agreements?
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12/8/12 — Open — Honey Laundering
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11/13/12 — Women's Health — What is Food Fraud? a Honey Case
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10/5/12 — Chicago Sun-Times — Honey Executive Sentenced to Jail
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12/13/11 — the salt (NPR's Food Blog) — Funny Honey? Bringing Trust To A Sector Full Of Suspicion
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11/25/11 — the salt (NPR's Food Blog) — Relax, Folks. It Really Is Honey After All
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11/18/11 — The Quest — Honey laundering: Update on transshipments from China
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8/15/11 — Food Safety News — Asian Honey, Banned in Europe, Is Flooding U.S. Grocery Shelves by Andrew Schneider — FDA has the laws needed to keep adulterated honey off store shelves but does little, honey industry says. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is continuing its pursuit of illegal, and sometimes dangerous, imports of foreign honey into the United States.
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7/25/11 — The Mayer Brown Practices & World Trade 100 — Criminal Sanctions — More Resources — New U.S. Government Tactics Against Illegal Importers
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6/17/11 — The Quest — Urgent notice on imports of honey from 'Malaysia'.
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3/28/11 — Westlaw Journal — Charges that sting: ‘Honey laundering' and the new era of obstruction prosecutions.
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3/7/11 — Law Week Colorado — Honey laundering - A Cautionary Tale For Companies — Jail sentences now possible for anticipatory obstruction under a new law Section 1519, Honey Case Example.
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1/16/11 — All Gov — USDA Cracks Down on Honey Laundering — The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is continuing its pursuit of illegal, and sometimes dangerous, imports of foreign honey into the United States.
- 12/30/10 — Associated Press — Companies Hope Sourcing Will Stem Illegal Honey — Honey companies and importers are launching a program in January to try to stop the flow of illegally sourced honey from coming into the country.
- 12/20/10 — The Seattle Times — Bellevue man sentenced to prison for counterfeit honey scheme — A Bellevue man was sentenced Monday in U.S. District Court in Seattle to one year and a day in prison, six months of home detention and ordered to pay $400,000 in restitution in connection with an international honey-smuggling operation.
- 12/20/10 — KomoNews.com — Man gets year in prison in 'Honeygate' case — A Bellevue man was sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison and fined $400,000 for importing Chinese honey and claiming it was from other counties to avoid high import fees.
- 12/1/10 — California Farm Bureau Federation’s Ag Alert — Honey producers welcome importer’s prison sentence — While they say they're satisfied with a federal court conviction of a Taiwanese executive for illegally importing Chinese honey, California beekeepers say this kind of illegal activity is not new and that more must be done to protect U.S. beekeepers.
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9/1/10 – NBC Chicago – Funny Honey: Chicago Firms in Smuggling Scheme – U.S Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald on Wednesday announced an indictment against 11 German and Chinese executives and six corporations for a scheme to smuggle illegally produced-Chinese honey in to the United States.
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9/1/10 — Seattle PI — Guilty plea in honey importer case — A Bellevue resident accused of illegally importing honey to the United States -- including one shipment tainted with antibiotics – has pleaded guilty to related charges in U.S. District Court at Seattle.
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8/31/10 — KARE 11 — Klobuchar creates buzz over Chinese honey imports — Senator Klobuchar and Minnesota bee keepers ask the FDA to set a national purity standard for honey.
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8/30/10 — CityPages — Honey laundering stings Minnesota beekeepers — Minnesota beekeepers are buzzing made about “honey laundering” and Senator Klobuchar asks the FDA to crack down on bad honey practices.
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8/4/10 — Chicago Tribune — Honey importer pleads guilty to evading taxes - A Taiwanese man pleaded guilty today to illegally importing honey from China to avoid paying more than $5 million in import taxes.
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7/1/10 — Washington Post — Influence Industry: U.S. honey industry asks FDA for national purity standard- The U.S. honey industry asks the federal government for help amid lower domestic honey production and a flood of cheap imports from China.
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6/30/10 — Associated Press Beijing — Chinese honey trade tainted by fraud, honey laundering - Many unsavory practices have besmirched China's honey industry and raised complaints from competing American beekeepers.
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6/12/10 — The Hill — Schumer: ‘Honey laundering’ a sticky problem that needs FDA intervention.
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6/11/10 — NPR’s Health Blog — FDA Seizes Tainted Chinese Honey After Sen. Schumer Raises Fuss.
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6/10/10 — Wall Street Journal — A Bee in Schumer’s Bonnet: Honey Laundering – New York Senator Charles Schumer argues that Chinese companies are ducking tariffs imposed on Chinese honey exports and he calls for a national “standard of identity” for honey.
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5/16/10 — Houston Chronicle — Foreign honey oozes in — As beekeepers battle a dumping problem, a sleuth at Texas A&M tracks down where the imports come from.
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5/3/10 — Homeland Security Newswire — Texas A&M scientist tracks origins of bootleg honey from China.
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4/26/10 — AOL News — Stung By Fraudsters, Honey Execs Hold Secret Talks.
- 4/6/10 — AOL News — Honey Laundering Bust Highlights Sticky Problem.
- 3/30/10 — The Washington Post -- FDA pressured to combat rising 'food fraud' — ‘Food fraud’ is getting new attention as more products are imported and a tight economy heightens competition.
- 10/30/09 — The Chicago Tribune — President of Chinese firm pleads guilty in 'honey laundering' case — Yong Xiang Yan admits importing falsely-labeled honey to avoid U.S. tariffs.
- 10/28/09 — The Daily Green — 2009 Honey Crop — Bee Culture magazine's annual October survey about honey yields.
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10/17/09 — American Public Media's The Splendid Table – Missing Bees — Discussion with Rowan Jacobsen about his book Fruitless Fall: The Collapse of the Honey Bee and the Coming Agricultural Crisis.
- 10/15/09 — Baltimore Sun — White House Honey — On the South Lawn of the White House, Michelle Obama had a large bee hive installed to produce "White House Honey". The bee hive generated enough honey that the first lady gave each of the wives of the heads of state attending the G20 Summit in Pittsburg a jar.
- 10/2/09 — Reuters — New Film Seeks Answer to Mystery of Vanishing Bees — A new documentary seeks to unravel the mystery of why billions of honey bees have been disappearing from hives across the United States, and concludes that the chief suspect is pesticides.
- 8/19/09 — Seattle Post Intelligencer — Seattle defendant pleads guilty to importing tainted Chinese honey.
- 5/6/09 — Seattle Times — Bellevue businessman charged in alleged honey-smuggling operation.
