2024 Author: Jasmine Walkman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 08:29
The honey sold in our country is full of pesticides, antibiotics and GMOs, beekeepers warn. According to them, the blame for this lies with the farmers who break the law.
Iliya Tsonev, who has been in the field of native beekeeping for 20 years, told the media that Bulgarian honey has not been a useful food for a long time, as it is rich in antibiotics, pesticides and GMOs.
According to beekeepers, the biggest culprits for GMOs in native honey are farmers who obtain genetically modified organisms in the plants from which bees collect pollen.
Despite the strict bans on planting genetically modified organisms, farmers in our country break the law and no one punishes such offenses.
Pesticides in honey are due to the nectar that insects collect from crops whose seeds have been treated with neonicotinoids. These are toxic preparations that are used against pests. They are absorbed by the seed, and subsequently - by the whole plant and all surrounding plants.
In order to prove that honey contains harmful substances, a special test must be conducted, which the Bulgarian Food Safety Agency does not do.
The quality of honey is checked only at the request of the producer or trader, if he wants to be sure of the product he offers.
In quality honey should monitor a total of 10 indicators, such as taste, color, sucrose and water content. Safety tests are mandatory, but veterinarians cannot cover all beekeepers.
In addition, honey research is very expensive. 100 BGN are given separately for each antibiotic. Native beekeepers cannot allocate such sums. Therefore, only honey that is for export is tested.
The only laboratory in which Bulgarian honey is tested is located in Bremen, Germany.
For the Bulgarian market, however, remains the untested commodity, which is rich in antibiotics and pesticides.
Due to the rains and bad weather, beekeepers in some parts of the country report zero yields of some types of honey, and of other species - very low.
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