To counter its forgery, a bill was submitted to the State Duma on the fixation of the concept of “honey” at the legislative level. The authors were senators Alexander Dvoinykh, Sergey Mitetin and his deputy Vladimir Kashin (KPRF). Database subdivision.
The document proposes to understand honey as a natural sweet product that “bees collect, transform, mix from the nectar of plants or the secretions of living parts of plants or the secretions of insects that parasitize the living parts of plants”. They put them in honeycombs with the special substances they produce, take their water, collect them in the combs and leave them in the combs to mature.
In addition, the draft law clarifies the concepts determined in accordance with standardization such as beekeeping products – honey, royal jelly, beeswax, honey bee brood or drone brood homogenate, propolis, perga, bee venom, bee pack, pollen pollen, queen bee. documents.
It was proposed to amend the law “On beekeeping in the Russian Federation”.
The developers noted that due to the lack of a specific concept for “honey” defined by law, the name is often used for labeling products that are not a beekeeping product.
Earlier, toxicologist Mikhail Kutushov said that honey dangerous Keep refrigerated.