OPINION: Your canine crusader sees that
NZ Manuka industry has upset its
Australian counterparts – again!
The Australian Manuka Honey
Association (AMHA) has responded
to a recent study published by
NZ’s Unique Manuka Factor
Honey Association (UMFHA),
calling it “laughably self-serving”.
The offending UMFHA ‘study’,
conducted back in early February,
tested over 40 foreign samples
claiming to be manuka honey.
The study found that all foreign
samples failed to meet New
Zealand government manuka
identification tests and that only
New Zealand honey was thus able
to claim to be true manuka honey.
The AMHA has now upped the ante
by serving its NZ counterpart with
legal correspondence ordering it to
“cease and desist”. It looks like, this
time, it is the Aussies accusing us of
underhand – or is that underarm –
tactics when it comes to marketing
manuka honey.