Washington is buzzing over an unusual lobbying push by the U.S. honey industry, which is asking the federal government for help amid lower domestic honey production and a flood of cheap imports from ...

Millions of pounds of tainted Chinese honey are likely making their way onto U.S. store shelves, according to an investigation by Food Safety News (FSN). The online daily news site reports that ...

The United States imports most of its honey and for years China was the biggest supplier. But in 1997, a contagious bacterial epidemic raced through hundreds of thousands of Chinese hives, infecting ...

A Bellevue man admits he imported Chinese honey with false paper work to avoid high import fees. Chung Po Liu, 69, pleaded guilty last week to federal charges of illegally importing Chinese honey. At ...

A third or more of all the honey consumed in the US is likely to have been smuggled in from China and may be tainted with illegal antibiotics and heavy metals. A “Food Safety News” investigation has ...

BALTIMORE (AP) — Five people and two companies have been accused of flooding the market with cheaper honey from China and avoiding $180 million in duties, federal officials said Wednesday. The Chinese ...

SEATTLE (AP) -- A Chinese executive has pleaded guilty in a plot to smuggle adulterated honey into the United States, one of two criminal cases on the subject filed this year.

The honey trade isn't as sweet as it seems. Behind the scenes, different factions of the U.S. industry are fighting for control. Cut-rate foreign imports and unethical brokers are a growing threat.