“This change to remove honey as a category was necessitated by the inability to have honey fully tested for adulteration.”
The World Beekeeping Awards will judge beeswax and mead next year but not honey, because nobody can prove the honey is honey. An EU probe found 46% of sampled imports suspect, including all 10 from the UK. DNA tests flagged 24 of 25 jars from big UK retailers. The supermarkets keep selling sugar syrup at honey prices while the beekeepers lose their own trophy.