{"id":34499,"date":"2020-12-07T04:45:25","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T04:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=34499"},"modified":"2020-12-07T04:45:26","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T04:45:26","slug":"honey-marketed-by-prominent-indian-brands-failed-a-key-test-of-purity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/honey-marketed-by-prominent-indian-brands-failed-a-key-test-of-purity\/","title":{"rendered":"Honey marketed by prominent Indian brands failed a key test of purity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Honey marketed by prominent brands failed a key test of purity, the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has claimed, citing an investigation it conducted on various brands of Indian honey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/current-affairs-quiz-2019-daily-gk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Key-Points<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Current regulations specify around 18 parameters that honey must comply with for producers to label it \u2018pure honey\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most brands passed muster but when subjected to one test, called Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) that was done at a lab in Germany, only three brands passed: Saffola, Markfed Sohna and Nature\u2019s Nectar. There were often multiple samples tested for each brand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Test can ascertain the composition of a product at the molecular level)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The NMR test is not required by Indian law for honey that is being marketed locally but is needed for export.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Honey marketed by prominent brands failed a key test of purity, the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has claimed, citing an investigation it conducted on various brands of Indian honey. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Current regulations specify around 18 parameters that honey must comply with for producers to label it \u2018pure honey\u2019. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":34500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1364],"tags":[82,80],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-34499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-december-2020","tag-economy-current-affairs","tag-health-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34501,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34499\/revisions\/34501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34499"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=34499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}