No health risk, says watchdog, but vendors and supermarkets told to remove stock
A potentially harmful antibiotic has been found in six honey samples tested by the consumer rights watchdog.
The samples contained chloramphenicol, which can cause aplastic anaemia, a condition where bone marrow does not produce enough red and white blood cells or platelets.
But the Consumer Council says the levels do not pose a health risk.
'The antibiotic is used for the treatment of different bacterial infections including eye infections but it is banned in food under the law,' assistant director of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department Thomas Chung Wai-hung said.
'Normal consumption of the honey is very unlikely to pose any health risk, as the level of the antibiotics found in the samples are very low.'
