[Beeman]

True; but there is no documented botulism illness from honey. It is a warning because in small amounts it can be found on the top of honey, most likely from dirty containers, not from the honey itself.

[aruanan]

True; but there is no documented botulism illness from honey. It is a warning because in small amounts it can be found on the top of honey, most likely from dirty containers, not from the honey itself.

In honey, it doesn't happen in the same way as in something like canned fish. The botulin poisoning comes not from botulin in the honey but from the C. botulinum spores that can grow in the newborn gut and produce botulin. There are maybe about 60-90 cases of infantile botulin poisoning every year from honey.