It is a food fraud more nefarious and more sophisticated than what we found in our 2003 and 2006 investigations into soft drinks; more damaging to our health than perhaps anything that we have found till now – keeping in mind the fact that we are still fighting against a …
A confirmatory method for 6 penicillin antibiotics (amoxicillin, ampicillin, penicillin G, oxacillin, cloxacillin, and dicloxacillin) in honey is presented that allows determination and confirmation of identity of the antibiotics at trace levels. The method includes the use of a stable isotope-labeled internal standard benzyl (d7-phenyl) penicillate and removal of sugar …
Liquid chromatography?electrospray ionization mass spectrometry methods (LC-ESI-MS and LC-ESI-MS/MS) for the determination of five macrolide antibiotics including spiramycin, tilmicosin, oleandomycin, erythromycin, and tylosin in honey are presented. Macrolides were protonated to form singly and/or doubly charged pseudomolecular ions, depending on their chemical structures, in an electrospray positive ionization mode. Data …
Fifty samples of honey collected from local markets of Portugal and Spain during year 2002 were analyzed for 42 organochlorine, carbamate, and organophosphorus pesticide residues. An analytical procedure based on solid-phase extraction with octadecyl sorbent followed by gas chromatography?mass spectrometry (GC?MS), for organochlorines, and by liquid chromatography?atmospheric pressure chemical ionization-mass …
Streptomycin belongs to the group of aminoglycoside antibiotics. It was utilized in apiculture to protect bees against a variety of bee diseases. It was the aim of this study to develop a highly sensitive LC/MS/MS method, which could be validated, for the quantitative determination of streptomycin in honey.
It's like killing two birds with a single stone. Researchers have found that African farmers are using bees to save their crops from elephants, and also making a fast buck from the honey. The bees attack anything that threatens their hives. Angry swarms are reputed to have chased herds of …
US-based researchers have discovered how a swarm of honeybees functions as a single collective brain while choosing a new home. US biologists say scouting bees, after returning from their individual search operations, dance to indicate the location of the prospective site as well as its quality. Gradually, only a single …
A reliable and sensitive procedure is presented for the analysis of streptomycin (STP) in food of animal origin, like meat, milk and honey. The method is based on a separation by ion-pair liquid chromatography with ?-naphthoquinone-4-sulfonate (NQS) postderivatization and fluorescence detection. The clean-up of the extract is done by solid-phase …
Honey contains low-to-moderate levels of disease-fighting antioxidants with the dark-coloured variety containing more antioxidants than do lighter ones, US researchers announced recently. According to researchers May Berenbaum from University of Illinois in Urbana, USA, honey might "play an important
In this study, a new clean up method was developed for the routine multiresidue determination of organochlorine pesticide residues in honey. The analytical procedure requires sample extraction with methanol, followed by a clean up step through a C18 Sep-Pak cartridge. Finally, pesticides are eluted with hexane. The determination of organochlorine …
Gopal Paliwal had always been intrigued by the complex physiology of wild or rock honeybees. Today, this 28-year old entomologist boasts of a doctorate (from Wardha University) on the neuroendocrine and reproductive sys- tems of the rockbee (Apis dorsata). Unlured by offers from pharmaceutical companies and research laboratories, Paliwal chose …
TRADITIONAL honey hunters in India have so far relied on crude methods for gathering honey which mainly involves lighting a fire under the hives to drive out the bees. The honey is then manually squeezed out of the combs. While this technique serves the main purpose - gathering honey - …
BANI Prasad Yadav, 52, a marginal farmer from Patiasa village, 15 km from Muzaffarpur in Bihar, today literally enjoys the sweet smell of success. Four years ago, he began beekeeping, helped by the Vaishali-based ngo, Bibipur Small Farmers and Resourceless Communities' Association (basfarca). Till then, he had been barely subsisting …
The cave paintings at Bhimbetka in Madhya Pradesh that date back to circa 6000 BC indicate that honey has been popular in India since then, especially in rural India. A lot of it is consumed during the monsoon. The Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that about 51,000 tonnes of honey …
IN ANTIQUITY, honey was considered a miracle of nature. agle called it "dew distilled from stars and rainbows". And Oblical idea of the Promised Land was a place where milk I boney flowed in abundance. Apiculture - beekeeping in common parlance - has a widespread for ages. Honeycombs were kept …
Honey में मिलावट का खेल सामने आया है. जितने बड़े Brand का आप Honey इस्तेमाल को सोचते होंगे उन सारे ही Brands के Honey में Sugar Syrup की मिलावट का वाख्या सामने आया है. चाहे Dabur हो या Patanjali, ये बड़े Brands के Honey में मिलावट पाई गई है.
DNA: CSE has found that Chinese sugar syrup is being added to the honey by most companies In this part of the DNA, we will do the DNA Test of International honey mafias. According to the information, the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has found that Chinese sugar syrup …
