The authencity of honey in relation to quality parameters

Abstract

In the Serbian market can be found significant quantity of honey which authenticity can be doubt. Honey is changed sensory, as well as in certain chemical quality parameters. Sometimes it happens that honey is in accordance to quality requirements but that doesn?t mean that it?s natural and authentic honey. Many analysts who are engage in testing the quality of honey have experience to recognize the honey that isn't from honey bees but the work of skilled producers. The question is how to solve the problem - how to recognize forgery honey from natural although it is in accordance to quality requirements prescribed by the legislation? The most important is that this honey isn`t selling to consumers as a natural honey. Analysts here are becoming helpless because the law is rigid and based on the quality parameters that we cannot with certainty tell if the honey is forgery or not. In this article we reviewed the results of examination of quality of honey from the market of Serbia, where the sensory evaluation demonstrated that it is a honey in which authenticity can be doubted. The results were: 1. honey that has sensory changed with good quality parameters and 2. honey that has sensory changed with quality parameters which isn?t in accordance with Book of Regulation. The conclusion is that a larger number of samples that have been sensory changed did not satisfy the chemical quality parameters, and in one part of the samples were present residues of antibiotics and sulfonamides.Na trzistu u Srbiji se moze naci veca kolicina meda u ciju se autenticnost sumnja. Med je promenjen senzorno, kao i u odredjenim hemijskim parametrima kvaliteta. Desava se da med ispunjava uslove kvaliteta, a da ipak nije prirodan i autentican. Mnogi analiticari koji se bave ispitivanjem kvaliteta imaju iskustva da prepoznaju med koji ne potice od medonosnih pcela, vec je delo umesnih proizvodjaca falsifikovanog meda. Tu nastaje problem - kako med koji jeste falsifikat a ispunjava sve uslove kvaliteta propisane zakonskom regulativom proglasiti falsifikatom? Od primarnog je znacaja da se takav med ne dospe na trziste kao prirodan med. Analiticari tu postaju bespomocni jer je zakon rigidan i na osnovu parametara kvaliteta koji su njim propisani ne moze se sa sigurnoscu tvrditi da je med falsifikat ili ne. U ovom radu dat je pregled rezultata ispitivanja kvaliteta jednog broja uzoraka meda sa trzista Republike Srbije, gde su senzorne ocene pokazale da je u pitanju med u ciju se autenticnost moze sumnjati. Dobijeni su sledeci rezultati: 1. med koji je senzorno promenjen sa dobrim parametrima kvaliteta i 2. med koji je senzorno promenjen sa parametrima kvaliteta koji ne odgovaraju Pravilniku. Zakljucak je da je kod veceg broja uzoraka med koji je senzorno promenjen nije zadovoljavao hemijske parametre kvaliteta, a kod jednog dela uzoraka koji nisu ispunjavali zahteve propisane zakonom su bile prisutne i rezidue antibiotika i sulfonamida. PR Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br. 46009, subproject 46009/III, Improvement of technological processes in the production of bees, honey, wax and pollen