The New Zealand Government is to issue formal guidelines on the labelling of manuka honey.

Peter Harwood, director and founder of Planet Health ­– UK distributor of specialist manuka honey brand Watson & Son – told Natural Products: “it’s important for all genuine brands of manuka honey to work together in promoting the many positive benefits of this amazing product. He added that Watson & Son meets the highest testing standards and that all products passed recent testing completed by UK Trading Standards as a follow up to the Sunday Times story.