Behind The Scenes At The Latin Honey Shop (In Photos)

A 25 image photo album showing the journey of a jar of honey from Latin America to your kitchen:

1. Organic bee hives in Latin America

2. Samples received and analysed in London

3. Honey purchased in 300kg drums, being loaded here into a 20ft shipping container

4. Container with honey drums travels by sea six weeks to Europe

5. Each shipment of honey drums is inspected by Port Health vets in the EU, we pay hundreds of pounds for these inspections

6. Container unloaded at Southampton port, UK

7. Honey in drums arrives at Latin Honey Shop filling facility in London, UK

8. 300kg of Raw Organic Rivera Gum Honey from Uruguay

9. A pallet of empty jars has arrived from Europe

10. Twelve empty jars in a box, to be labelled and batch coded

11. Label artwork is designed to highly detailed EU specifications then sent for approval to the Organic Food Federation

12. Once artwork is approved it is sent for printing

13. Honey is filled by machine electronically calibrated to precise weight

14. Finished batch of Rivera Gum Honey just filled

15. Boxes each containing 12 jars of Rivera Gum

16. Boxes of honey in storage before they go to the online warehouse

17. One pallet of completed honey jars on its way to the online warehouse

18. The honey is put on sale and buyers place their orders

19. A parcel of honey in transit to one of our customers the same or next working day after the order is placed

20. The parcel of honey arrives at the customer's home

21. Each honey jar is secured in a protective air sack

22. The honey's home: in the kitchen of a Latin Honey Shop customer

23. A jar of Rivera Gum at the BBC Radio London studios

24. A Two-Star Great Taste Award won by the Rivera Gum Honey

25. Award winning Raw Organic Rivera Gum Honey from Uruguay by the Latin Honey Shop

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