National Honey Show 2008   24.1.08
The National Honey Show, previously held at the RAF Museum, Hendon, has a new venue and new dates for 2008

The move is to St. Georges College, Addlestone, Nr Weybridge. The venue is just one mile from the M25. Unlike the museum at Hendon, the honey show, lectures, workshops and trade stands are close together.

The new dates are Thursday 30th October until Saturday 1st November.

Check the website - www.honeyshow.co.uk regularly for updated details.
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Kylie snaps up world's most expensive honey - on sale at £42 a pot at Harrods   6.1.08
Honey thought to be the world's most expensive at £42 per pot has gone on sale at Harrods.



It is being sold in the store's pharmacy instead of its food hall because of the honey's apparent health benefits.



The 120g pots of Life Mel honey are popular with celebrities such as Sienna Miller and Kylie Minogue, Harrods said.



Life Mel has a high price tag because it is made by honey bees fed on a specially created diet which includes herbs such as Siberian ginseng and echinacea.



It has a strong taste similar to manuka honey and is made without artificial ingredients.

Harrods press and product manager Andre Dang said the honey was sold in the Harrods' Farmacia because it was used as a health product.

"This is the newest product that has just launched.

"People are tending to use it more as an alternative therapy rather than spreading it on toast," he said.

The honey, which is made in Israel, is meant to be eaten by the teaspoonful in the morning and at night.

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Honey Makes 'Comeback' as Natural Disease Fighter   6.1.08
Amid growing concern over drug-resistant superbugs and nonhealing wounds that endanger diabetes patients, nature's original antibiotic — honey — is making a comeback.

More than 4,000 years after Egyptians began applying honey to wounds, Derma Sciences Inc., a New Jersey company that makes medicated and other advanced wound care products, began selling the first honey-based dressing this fall after it was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

Called Medihoney, it is made from a highly absorbent seaweed-based material, saturated with manuka honey, a particularly potent type that experts say kills germs and speeds healing. Also called Leptospermum honey, manuka honey comes from hives of bees that collect nectar from manuka and jelly bushes in Australia and New Zealand.

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Big Island honey goes ‘carbon free’   6.1.08
One Hawaii business is taking the business of being eco-conscious to the next level.

Besides having its products certified as organic, the Hawaiian Queen Co. on the Big Island is also adding a certified CarbonFree product label to its Royal Hawaiian Honey line.

The certification comes from Carbonfund.org, a nonprofit group based in Maryland that is offering companies the label in exchange for a carbon footprint analysis and the chance to offset it with contributions to its reforestation, renewable energy, and energy efficiency projects.

Distributor Tropical Traders Specialty Foods offers three certified organic honeys which will carry the new label: Hawaiian Christmas Berry, Hawaiian Lehua and Macadamia Nut Blossom

Star Bulletin
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Study: Try honey for children's coughs   5.12.07
CHICAGO --A teaspoon of honey before bed seems to calm children's coughs and help them sleep better, according to a new study that relied on parents' reports of their children's symptoms.

The folk remedy did better than cough medicine or no treatment in a three-way comparison. Honey may work by coating and soothing an irritated throat, the study authors said.
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