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Australian manuka honey producers score legal win over New Zealand producers in Europe, UK
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<blockquote data-quote="JohnF" data-source="post: 11979" data-attributes="member: 233"><p>Interesting that the the article references <em>L. scoparium</em> specifically.</p><p>"The plant that produces the pollen used by bees to make manuka honey, <em>Leptospermum scoparium</em>, grows natively on both sides of the Tasman."</p><p></p><p>Previously Australians were claiming *all* Leptospermum as manuka . . .useful when in fact they have little scoparium and their active honeys are mostly other species such as <em>L. polygalifolium</em> (jellybush) and others. Ironically many of these species have higher DHA and MGO than our/their scoparium.</p><p>Australian honeys will likely pass the chemical tests in the manuka definition but fail the DNA test.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JohnF, post: 11979, member: 233"] Interesting that the the article references [I]L. scoparium[/I] specifically. "The plant that produces the pollen used by bees to make manuka honey, [I]Leptospermum scoparium[/I], grows natively on both sides of the Tasman." Previously Australians were claiming *all* Leptospermum as manuka . . .useful when in fact they have little scoparium and their active honeys are mostly other species such as [I]L. polygalifolium[/I] (jellybush) and others. Ironically many of these species have higher DHA and MGO than our/their scoparium. Australian honeys will likely pass the chemical tests in the manuka definition but fail the DNA test. [/QUOTE]
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