DOI: 10.11118/978-80-7509-996-9-0355

OSTATNÍ VČELÍ PRODUKTY NOTIFIKOVANÉ V SYSTÉMU RASFF V LETECH 1999 AŽ 2023 / OTHER BEE PRODUCTS NOTIFIED IN THE RASFF SYSTEM BETWEEN 1999 AND 2023

Matej Tkáč¹

¹ Ústav hygieny a technologie potravin živočišného původu a gastronomie Fakulta veterinární hygieny a ekologie, Veterinární univerzita Brno, Palackého tř. 1946/1, 612 42 Brno

The Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) serves for the rapid exchange of information on health risks arising from food, food contact materials and feed. In addition to other foodstuffs, the RASFF also receives notifications regarding honey and other bee products, which are included in the category "Honey and royal jelly". Notifications from 1999 to the end of 2023 published in the RASFF Window and European Data databases were analysed. It was detected that notifications related to “other bee products” accounted for 13% of the total number of notifications received in the “Honey and royal jelly” category. In the monitored period, Italy entered the most notifications in the RASFF in the category "other bee products" (38%), and the most common country of origin of the notified product was China (40%). The most frequently notified "other bee product" was royal jelly with an 87% share, and the most frequent reason for notification, in up to 81% of cases, was the detected presence of the prohibited substance chloramphenicol.

Keywords: propolis, royal jelly, bee pollen, chloramphenicol, honey

pages: 355-360, online: 2024