THE EUROPEAN SYMPOSIUM “SCIENCE AGAINST COUNTERFEITERS” WAS HELD IN SERBIA, AT THE 16TH STATE BEEKEEPING FAIR IN THE ORGANIZATION OF SPOS – SFBO (SERBIAN FEDERATION OF BEEKEEPING ORGANIZATIONS) WITH REPRESENTATIVES OF THE LABORATORIES INTERTEK FROM GERMANY, CELVIA FROM ESTONIA AND ANALAB FROM SERBIA, IN WICH THE PRESIDENT OF THE EBA ALSO PARTICIPATED.
The Symposium “SCIENCE AGAINST COUNTERFEITERS” brought together leading European laboratories for the detection of counterfeit honey, which today threaten beekeepers and beekeeping like never before, leading it into a bottomless abyss, since honest beekeepers and businessmen can no longer make a living, because they are completely defeated by unfair competition.
Symposium participants:
1) Boštjan Noch
President of the European Beekeeping Association (EBA)
2) Uwe Karassek, Philip Krafzig
INTERTEK Laboratory, Bremen, Germany
3) Kaarel Kryutshkov
CELVIA Laboratory, Tartu, Estonia
4) Ivan Smajlović
Laboratory ANA LAB, Pančevo, Serbia
The beekeepers present expressed great concern about the state of the honey market. Laboratory representatives tried to provide their views on solving this problem through existing and innovative honey analysis methods. A recording of the meeting will be published on the EBA website in the coming days.
