Voluntary certification process planned for 2011

True Source Honey, a coalition of several honey producers, is created a voluntary certification process to help stem the tide of tainted and/or illegal honey.

Beyond The Hive: Help your local food banks this holiday season

I'm following the lead of South Jersey Locavore and promoting the Check Out Hunger project of the Food Bank of New Jersey. One dollar added to your food bill at the checkout line means little to you, but a lot to the food bank.
While you're at it, please consider donating the free turkey you get for your local supermarket's rewards program to a food bank, and then buying your own turkey. You can visit Feeding America to find a food bank nearest you.

Honey launderer gets jail time, $5M fine

Another honey launderer has been sentenced to 30 months in jail and fined $5 million for illegal labeling of honey. Here's another news release on the case.

Beyond The Hive: From the FBI to spotting food trends

Suzy Badaracco used to work as a drug toxicologist for the FBI; now she uncovers food trends.
Here's her website.

Firm says it has a new technique to detect "tainted" honey

Thermo Fisher Scientific says a new technique can detect tainted honey.

Business Insider weighs in on Colony Collapse Disorder

Writer Dina Spector says not so fast ... CCD can't easily be pinned on a virus/fungus combination, she writes, noting that some folks are starting to shoot holes in the theory that was espoused last week as a breakthrough. Chief amid the criticism is that one of the researchers got grant money from Bayer, which happens to manufacture many of the toxins/pesticides that also have been cited as causes of the bees' poor health.

The new issue of the #bees Daily is out

Here's someplace you can go for news on bees and beekeeping.