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Standards of Honey Quality in Serbian Legislation

Autor

Ćirić, Jelena
Lakićević, Brankica
Babić, Milenko
Petronijević, Radivoj
Mrdović, Boris

Opis (eng)

According to the European Union Legislation and the Codex Alimentarius, honey is defined as natural sweet substance produced by honey bees from the plants nectar or from secretions of plants living parts or excretions of plant sucking insects on the living parts of plants, which the bees collect, transform by combining with specific substances of their own, deposit, dehydrate, store and leave in the honeycomb to ripen and mature. The quality of honey and bee products depends on its geographical and botanical origin, with high aspect of environment condition. Active components in plants depend on various factors and climatic conditions in different geographical locations, botanical origin etc. Codex Alimentarius presented that chemical characteristic and element concentration of honey must meet the criteria of honey quality, according to national and international legislation. Also, in some counties issued national legislation, decisions and guidelines which correlate with European and International standards. In Serbia honey and other honey bee products must meet criteria according to Official Gazette RS: Rulebook on quality of honey and other bee products, No. 101/2015. Official Gazette RS defined the physicochemical parameters of natural honeys, such as moisture, reducing sugars, sucrose, hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF), free acidity, diastase activity, water-insoluble content and electrical conductivity, and constitute the quality indicators which characterize individual honey varieties. In this paper, we discuss the rules governing regulation of honey in national provisions of different countries taking into account suggestion of the EU.

Jezik

engleski

Datum

2023-04-14

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Predmet

honey; legislation, Codex, EU standards, quality

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Institut za higijenu i tehnologiju mesa