MPI heads off legal challenge with late change to mānuka definition

MPI heads off legal challenge with late change to mānuka definition
Paul McBeth
By Paul McBeth Jan. 30 (BusinessDesk) - The Ministry for Primary Industries has avoided a legal stoush with local beekeepers over a planned definition of what constitutes mānuka honey as regulators exert greater control over the label.  The government agency reissued the general requirements for bee products export notice, reducing the level of chemical marker 2'-MAP to greater than or equal to 1 milligram per kilogram for multifloral mānuka honey from 5 mg/kg in the earlier notice, MPI said in a statement. Monofloral honey's required mar...