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Austria Trials DNA Testing To Uncover Honey Fraud

Only a few European laboratories run DNA analysis to test honey (Credit: AFP)

At a laboratory in Austria's mountainous Tyrol province, scientists are DNA testing about 100 honey samples a month to learn about their composition -- and in some cases to determine whether they have been adulterated.

With fake honey flooding markets, and only a few European laboratories running such analysis, the small Austrian company Sinsoma began offering the tests two years ago.

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