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Countless litres of Chinese honey already consumed in South Africa over the past four years were contaminated with a dangerous antibiotic suspected of causing liver cancer and a potentially fatal rare blood disorder, South African beekeepers have warned.

The possible side effects of the antibiotic chloramphenicol - which was found in German, then British imports of Chinese honey in 2002 - are so serious that it is usually prescribed by doctors only for severe infections and typhoid fever.

The antibiotic is used to treat honeybees for diseases like European foulbrood - similar to diarrhoea, which kills bees through body-fluid loss - but many Chinese producers are believed to overdose even healthy hives as a preventive measure, leaving potentially toxic traces in the honey harvest.

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