RE: Protect the Bees ... from Honey?
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The problem is thus only related with honey originating from North America, isn't it? Whilst in France, a lot of the available honey is difficult to precisely trace, most of it however originates from Eastern Europe (I would say pfeeww regarding the foulbrood issue). In our case, we have met this morning a local honey producer, and will test it probably very soon :)
PS: I didn't know the word foulbrood, and its French translation did not even help me. I learned something!
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Sadly, it's not only in North America anymore. American foulbrood can come from China too, and some European beekeepers have trouble with it.
In the end it comes down to the question if the beekeeper you're getting the honey from can be trusted to carefully check their hives, and effectively fight potential infections.
Bottom line: don't feed bees honey, but it's no problem for humans (usually).
The beekeepers we met do not feed the bees with honey. Instead, they are moving the hives in different places, close to different fields. In this way, the bees can help themselves with different flowers/crops/plants every time, and at the producer level, different honnies are constantly made. I like this idea, to be honest.
There's still a certain danger for the bees, they can attack another hive and rob their honey for example.
A good beekeeper has to regularly check for signs of infection in the hive, that's absolutely necessary.
I guess they do that (since they are producing honeys for years), but this, I didn't check myself (I am by far not an expert and what matters to me is to buy local, and promote reasoned cultures).