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ADULTERANTS in honey are not simply the addition of cheap sugar products to honey and selling the product as pure honey. They also include residues and other contaminants which result from either intentional or unintentional use of chemical or other materials. While intentional adulteration is without doubt still with us, we do not really know its extent in the marketplace. Since the Government has been testing all of the loan program honey, the incidence of apparent adulteration at the producer level, never very high, appears to have nearly disappeared. This entire testing program of the Government has been very much a trial to beekeepers because of the way it was carried out by the contractors under Government orders, but it perhaps has served a useful purpose.
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