Honey Adulteration New EU Rules

Since the end of November, third party countries exporting honey and other apiculture products to the EU for human consumption must be registered, and consignments may only enter the bloc if they are despatched from, obtained and/or prepared in accordance with Article 127 (3) of Regulation (EU) 2017/625.

Facilitating traceability, this measure supports reinforced checks on any organisations suspected to either have safety issues or to be trading adulterated products . associated regulations allow for intensified official controls at borders.

Where infringements are found, additional controls will not cease until at least 10 satisfactory shipments are approved or when the total weight of the consignments reaches at least 10 times the weight of the first on-compliant shipment. If as many as three non-compliant shipments are proven, a further 30 compliant shipments are required before reinforced controls for that establishment are lifted. The costs involved are borne by the  operator.

Honey and bee products clearly present concerns when it comes to adulteration; find out how many labs use Sercon systems to test for these by “link to HS2022 IsoEArth and Integra2.