Hungary’s largest honey processing plant in Dunavarsány has been closed on suspicion of diluting its products following an investigation by food safety inspectors, the Customs and Finance Guard and the tax authority APEH. The swoop was part of a series of raids on honey manufacturers across Pest County.

Chief veterinary officer, Miklós Süth, speaking on Inforádió last Tuesday, explained that documentation and equipment discovered at the Aranynektar Kft factory in Dunavarsány provided strong grounds for suspicion that the company has been bulking up its produce with syrups.

Süth was unable to comment on reports that the company may also have been involved in unregistered imports and tax fiddling. The owner of Aranynektar, Ferenc Takács, last week refused to comment on the affair.

The quality of the honey sold in Hungary was called into question last May when an independent laboratory analysis commissioned by bee keepers found that seventy per cent of the honey on supermarket shelves had been adulterated in some way.

	1. Written by Ricsi on 28-04-2008 17:57 - Guest
	Honey quality Another so typical example of greedy owners putting profit before quality and thus destroying the reputation of another previously esteemed Hungarian product.

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