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• 9/1/10 — Seattle PI — Guilty plea in honey importer case — A Bellevue resident accused of illegally importing honey to the United States -- including one shipment tainted with antibiotics – has pleaded guilty to related charges in U.S. District Court at Seattle.

• 8/31/10 — KARE 11 — Klobuchar creates buzz over Chinese honey imports — Senator Klobuchar and Minnesota bee keepers ask the FDA to set a national purity standard for honey

• 8/30/10 — CityPages — Honey laundering stings Minnesota beekeepers — Minnesota beekeepers are buzzing made about “honey laundering” and Senator Klobuchar asks the FDA to crack down on bad honey practices.

• 8/4/10 — Chicago Tribune — Honey importer pleads guilty to evading taxes - A Taiwanese man pleaded guilty today to illegally importing honey from China to avoid paying more than $5 million in import taxes

• 7/1/10 — Washington Post — Influence Industry: U.S. honey industry asks FDA for national purity standard- The U.S. honey industry asks the federal government for help amid lower domestic honey production and a flood of cheap imports from China.

• 6/30/10 — Associated Press Beijing — Chinese honey trade tainted by fraud, honey laundering - Many unsavory practices have besmirched China's honey industry and raised complaints from competing American beekeepers

• 6/12/10 — The Hill — Schumer: ‘Honey laundering’ a sticky problem that needs FDA intervention

• 6/11/10 — NPR’s Health Blog — FDA Seizes Tainted Chinese Honey After Sen. Schumer Raises Fuss

• 6/10/10 — Wall Street Journal — A Bee in Schumer’s Bonnet: Honey Laundering –  New York Senator Charles Schumer argues that Chinese companies are ducking tariffs imposed on Chinese honey exports and he calls for a national “standard of identity” for honey.

• 5/16/10 — Houston Chronicle — Foreign honey oozes in — As beekeepers battle a dumping problem, a sleuth at Texas A&M tracks down where the imports come from.

• 5/3/10 — Homeland Security Newswire — Texas A&M scientist tracks origins of bootleg honey from China

• 4/26/10 — AOL News — Stung By Fraudsters, Honey Execs Hold Secret Talks

• 4/6/10 — AOL News — Honey Laundering Bust Highlights Sticky Problem
• 3/30/10 — The Washington Post -- FDA pressured to combat rising 'food fraud' — ‘Food fraud’ is getting new attention as more products are imported and a tight economy heightens competition.
• 10/30/09 — The Chicago Tribune — President of Chinese firm pleads guilty in 'honey laundering' case — Yong Xiang Yan admits importing falsely-labeled honey to avoid U.S. tariffs.
• 10/28/09 — The Daily Green — 2009 Honey Crop — Bee Culture magazine's annual October survey about honey yields.

• 10/17/09 — American Public Media's The Splendid Table – Missing Bees — Discussion with Rowan Jacobsen about his book Fruitless Fall: The Collapse of the Honey Bee and the Coming Agricultural Crisis.

• 10/15/09 — Baltimore Sun — White House Honey — On the South Lawn of the White House, Michelle Obama had a large bee hive installed to produce "White House Honey". The bee hive generated enough honey that the first lady gave each of the wives of the heads of state attending the G20 Summit in Pittsburg a jar.
• 10/2/09 — Reuters — New Film Seeks Answer to Mystery of Vanishing Bees — A new documentary seeks to unravel the mystery of why billions of honey bees have been disappearing from hives across the United States, and concludes that the chief suspect is pesticides.
• 8/19/09 — Seattle Post Intelligencer — Seattle defendant pleads guilty to importing tainted Chinese honey
• 5/6/09 — Seattle Times — Bellevue businessman charged in alleged honey-smuggling operation
  

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