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30% of the honey that is imported each year in Spain comes from China

, but the consumer cannot know it because this data has disappeared from the

labels

through a "legal tangle".

So say the OCU and COAG, respectively organizations that represent the interests of consumers, and farmers and ranchers, respectively, in a joint investigation that has been made public today.

The alarm was raised when in 2016 Asian imports fell dramatically and, at the same time, Portuguese ones increased.

Both countries,

China and Portugal

, are currently the main importers of honey in Spain, but surprisingly, we cannot see this when we go to the supermarket.

Why?

what the legislation allows

The OCU and COAG say that the community and Spanish community regulations allow certain subterfuges:

  • Acquisition of origin: goods in whose production more than one country or territory intervenes have their origin in the country in which their "last substantial and economically justified transformation" took place.

  • Among these

    substantial transformations

    are, for example, mixing and heating, actions that are carried out with honey.

  • The origin of a mixture will be the country of origin of the materials that represent more than 50% by weight of the mixture.

  • The country or countries of origin in which the honey and, where appropriate, its mixtures, were collected must be mentioned on the label.

    • Thus, they say,

    honey harvested in China

    and imported by a Portuguese operator, which is mixed (or hot) with honey harvested in Spain,

    can acquire the origin of Spain

    if more than 50% by weight of the final mixture is honey harvested in Spain .

    "Consumers deserve to be able to trust that what is said on the labels is the reality about the origin of the products, beyond tricks or legal devices to change their nationality, explains Ileana Izverniceanu, director of Communication and Institutional Relations at OCU.

    The data suggest that

    Chinese honey, which continues to enter Spain today,

    is triangulated through other EU countries (Portugal and Romania), where it is transformed and mixed to acquire a new origin: "Origin Spain".

    To avoid

    massive deception

    of consumers, COAG and the OCU ask the European Union and the Spanish Government to modify the regulations regarding the labeling and origin of honey.

    According to the criteria of The Trust Project

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