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### American Dietetic Association

Enjoy honey as a sweetener in your tea, on your toast, or in your yogurt, but don’t feed it to your infants—so warns the **American Dietetic Association**. Honey sometimes contains spores of the toxic bacterium *Clostridium botulinum*, which is harmless to adults and older children but may cause botulism in kids younger than 12 months.

### American Apitherapy Society

Here’s a sweet quality of honey from Down Under: Researchers have found that certain bees in Australia and New Zealand produce a type of honey called “manuka” that heals chronic wound infections. It blocks more than 80 species of bacteria and is no doubt useful to the **American Apitherapy Society**, which educates people seeking alternative forms of therapy through the use of beehive products such as honey, pollen, propolis, royal jelly, and bee venom.

### American Beekeeper Federation

Worried about the quality of your honey? The **American Beekeeper Federation**’s Honey Defense Fund works to protect the amber-colored- sweetener’s image by testing honey samples suspected of being tainted with cheaper imposters. Concerned consumers can submit samples to ABF for testing.

[Katie Bascuas](https://associationsnow.com/author/katie-bascuas/)

Katie Bascuas is a former associate editor at Associations Now in Washington, DC.

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