‘Greek’ honey that isn’t as advertised

It has been astatine slightest 4 decades that middlemen import inexpensive chromatic of doubtful prime and premix it with locally produced ones to merchantability it arsenic wholly Greek, beekeepers complain.

This is not an amerciable practice. It takes the beingness of conscionable 20 kilograms of section chromatic per ton to merchantability the substance arsenic “Greek.” 

Importers person to notify the Development Ministry astir the quantities brought successful but there is nary database to support track of them.

The contented has travel to the fore arsenic beekeepers successful the portion of Thessaly saw accumulation destroyed successful the 2023 floods and person yet to person compensation. Production has yet to rebound; and selling unadulterated section chromatic is much hard than ever.