The honey will last but this producer will be taking a financial loss from quarantined product quickly going out of date.
E-coli is serious, however.
Is it big business squeezing him, or was he careless?
I can't tell from the article.
In my career, I bot some product from one of the nation's largest food companies. It, in turn, had some of its product made for them by a sizeable Pennsylvania Amish company. I had to send the drums back. The chit was foaming...