Comparative veterinary and sanitary assessment of honey from the Kansk district of the Krasnoyarsk region apiaries

The purpose of the study is to compare the quality of honey from different apiaries in the Kansk District of the Krasnoyarsk Region. Honey is one of the frequently adulterated products. Honey falsification is the addition of various impurities to bee honey or the replacement of natural honey with other products similar to it. As impurities that are added to natural honey to increase its mass, sucrose, starch, chalk, molasses, technical glucose, flour, gelatin, etc. are used. Sometimes falsification can be established immediately - by taste and smell, but more often - only by laboratory - chemical analysis of honey, during which the content of water and sugars in the test sample is determined. Honey, like many food products, is subject to veterinary and sanitary examination. The rules for the examination of honey are determined in accordance with the regulations. The qualitative composition of honey and its naturalness are of great importance, since honey has historically been an important component of nutrition and treatment in different regions of Russia, which increases the responsibility of the veterinary examination of honey. The paper presents the results of a veterinary assessment of honey, carried out in the apiaries of the Kansky District of the Krasnoyarsk Region. 5 samples of honey samples were taken, pure, not mixed from each apiary according to the sample. An organoleptic, physicochemical and laboratory analysis of the quality and naturalness of honey was carried out, samples from different apiaries of the Kansk District of the Krasnoyarsk Region were compared: the village of Lyubava (sample № 1), the village of Mokrusha (sample № 2), the village of Nikolaevka (sample № 3), the village of Ivantai (sample № 4), Zalesny village (sample № 5). As a result, it was found that honey in all 5 samples was of good quality, because all research data do not deviate from the standards. In samples № 1 and № 2, an admixture of beet molasses was found, which indicates the possibility of falsification. Samples № 3, 4 and 5 meet all the regulatory indicators of the current GOST 19792-2017 Natural honey. Specifications. It is recommended to timely conduct a veterinary and sanitary assessment of the quality of honey and strengthen control over the naturalness of honey.