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	Organic Honey

Amongst the various types of honeys available in the market, the organic honey is rapidly gaining popularity.

You may see it placed on the shelves of your grocery stores, with a hefty price tag attached to it, making you wonder the difference between it and the other varieties of honey. But there is a major difference. For the honey to be authorized as organic, the producer has to fulfill very strict set of organic standards and conditions at the time of production. These standards have been laid down by an organic agriculture certification body and specify the source of the nectar, honey bees’ foraging area, bees management, honey extraction process, transportation, processing temperature, and packaging materials. Organic honey is also checked to ascertain there are no traces of pesticides or environmental pollutants. Farming of organic honey has to satisfy intense and extensive administering and checking criteria of the certification body, e.g. the documenting and talking to all the land users inside a 5 kilometer radius of the organic hives to ensure there are no chemical residues present; periodic analysis and checking of honey samples; and hives being shown to be free of non-organic honey, sugar and antibiotics. Besides being healthier option, some devoted consumers of organic foods also consider the organic honey to be tastier than the normal honey, and so are willing to pay the higher price.

A word of caution: all the honeys labeled as organic may not necessarily be organic. You have to take a lot of precautions to prevent contamination, either by wind or by bee movement, or of the bees’ forage by non-organic pollen. Many beekeepers experience lot of difficulty to meet the strict organic norms laid down by the government. Hence to satisfy yourself, check out the IFOAM certification on the honey bottle. IFOAM is the universal umbrella organization for the organic movement.

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