Occurrence of pesticide residues in Italian honey from different areas in relation to its potential contamination sources

Panseri, Sara; Catalano, Amy J.; Giorgi, Annamaria; Arioli, Francesco; Procopio, Antonio; Britti, Domenico; Chiesa, Luca Maria

doi:10.1016/j.foodcont.2013.10.024

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“…pesticide residues) (Panseri et al 2014;Rodríguez López et al 2014), little research has investigated the range of foreign matter in honey (Loi & Canovai 2002), and sometimes it has strictly focused only on coloured fibres and other organic fragments (Liebezeit & Liebezeit 2013) or reported qualitative data (Martini et al 2007;Porporato et al 2009). As observed for other sectors of the food industry (Trematerra et al 2011), the main reason may be that most honey producers consider these data market sensitive, thus strictly confidential.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Survey of Italian honeys for the presence of foreign matter using the filth test

Canale

Canovai

Cosci

et al. 2014

Food Additives & Contaminants: Part A

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Honey is an ancient food that has always been considered a natural and healthy product, free of contaminants. However, it can contain toxic substances, such as antibiotics, pesticides and heavy metals, as well as foreign matter (e.g. arthropod body parts and microbial contaminants), working as allergens and vectors of human pathogens. In this study we used the filth test to evaluate the abundance of foreign matter in 70 Italian honeys, including Castanea sativa, Robinia pseudoacacia and multi-floral honeys, the latter both from small beekeeping farms and industrial producers. The abundance of different foreign matter varied in honeys, with a higher number of carbon particles and other inorganic fragments, followed by fragments of animal origin. This latter included insects (Diptera Brachycera larvae and Strepsiptera), their cuticular fragments (mainly Coleoptera, Hymenoptera and Lepidoptera), mites (mainly Glycyphagidae, Acaridae and Tarsonemidae) and mammal hairs. No differences were recorded in the abundance of foreign matter among different kinds of honey, as well as between honeys from small and large-sized producers. Foreign matter found in honey provided functional information to evaluate honey quality standards in apiary, honey extraction and packaging phases. Overall, the filth test method applied to honey quality control can be considered an excellent tool, also for small beekeeping farms, since it allows rapid and frequent quality checking of the production process. This method is cheap, requires minimal instrumental equipment and results can be interpreted quickly.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Survey of Italian honeys for the presence of foreign matter using the filth test

Canale

Canovai

Cosci

et al. 2014

Food Additives & Contaminants: Part A

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“…Because the botanical origin is the primary conditioner for the composition of apiculture products, any contaminating compounds can likely be traced to the originating plant species (Almeida-Muradian et al, 2005;Campos et al, 2008). Several studies have assessed contaminants in honeys, including antibiotics (Al-Waili, et al, 2012), heavy metals (Fredes and Montenegro, 2006;Tuzen et al, 2007), pesticides (Panseri et al, 2014;Rodríguez López et al, 2014), and others (Cortopassi-Laurino et al, 2006;. Volcanic activity can also affect the mineral composition of honeys and pollens produced in nearby areas (Mejías and Montenegro, 2012).…”

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Characterization of phenolic profile alterations in metal-polluted bee pollen via capillary electrophoresis

Mejías

Gómez²,

Gareil

et al. 2018

Ciencia e investigación agraria

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E. Mejías, C.J. Gómez, P. Gareil, N. Delaunay, and G. Montenegro. 2018. Characterization of phenolic profile alterations in metal-polluted bee pollen via capillary electrophoresis. Cien. Inv. Agr. 45(1): 51-63. Bee pollen is a conglomerate of plant pollens, and its nutritional contents include bioactive compounds with antioxidant/antiradical potentials. These potentials are conditioned by botanical origin. In Chile, the native flora is diverse and promising in terms of bioactive compounds, but many plants grow in metal-polluted areas. The associated bioaccumulation could negatively affect the antioxidant/antiradical abilities of bee pollen. To assess the relationship between the bioaccumulation of metals and the antioxidant activity of pollen, complete bee pollen was collected near and far from the Llaima Volcano, albeit in ranges that ensured the same botanical origins. Mellisopalynological analysis determined Escallonia rubra pollen was the most abundant native flora in complete bee pollen. Therefore, E. rubra pollen collected near and far from the Llaima Volcano was evaluated for the following: phenolic compounds via colorimetric assays; antioxidant activity via ferric reducing/antioxidant power assays; antiradical activity via 1,1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl radical assays; and metal contents via inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry. Llaima samples had higher Cu and Fe but lower Mn contents and lower antioxidant and antiradical capacities than did the control samples. These results were supported by subsequent fortification assays in Llaima E. rubra samples. In fortified samples with significantly higher metal contents, antiradical and antioxidant abilities decreased. Moreover, shifts in migration times were found for naringenin, rutine, and caffeic acid after capillary electrophoresis (CE) analysis in fortified samples. In conclusion, the results indicated an inverse correlation between metal contents and antioxidant/ antiradical potentials in bee pollen.

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“…In their study, Panseri et al in 2014 showed a great direct relation between pesticides residues found in honey and contaminants sources (Panseri et al 2014). Moreover, Malhat et al, in 2015 used honey samples as a gauge to monitor pesticides residues in ambient environment of the beehives in Egypt (Malhat et al 2015).…”

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“…It is important to underline that the systematic introduction of pesticides into nectar and pollen may have direct consequences for honey bee health and ultimately lead to pesticide contamination of honey and honey containing food (Panseri et al 2014). …”

Section: Pesticide Levels In Collected Honeymentioning

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The use of honey as environmental biomonitor of pesticides contamination in northern Lebanon

Al-Alam

Fajloun

Chabni

et al. 2017

Euro-Mediterr J Environ Integr

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The intensive use of pesticides in agriculture generates a contamination of the environment that must be assessed. Bee products such as honey, widely consumed, are not spared by this considerable contamination that can lead to health risks. Bees and their products (honey, nectar, pollen, etc) are considered as real indicators of environmental health. Indeed, these insects, characterized by a specified body and a high mobility, are considered particularly suitable to keep, with high sensitivity, pesticides with which they come in contact. So the analysis of these insects or of their products as honey has been demonstrated as a good bio indicator of environmental quality. In this study, 18 samples of honey collected from North Lebanon, were assayed for their contamination by 84 pesticides. Multi residue extraction was based on QuEChERS, followed by chromatographic analysis by LC-MS/MS and GC-MS/MS. For gas chromatographic analysis, samples were concentrated by SPME before being injected to the GC column. At first, the method was developed and validated using organic honey, and then the collected samples were analyzed. The limits of detection and quantification as well as the repeatability and the reproducibility of the method have been defined: between 0.1 and 25.2 ng g -1 and between 0.6 to 83.1 ng g -1 for the limits detection and quantification respectively. Furthermore, the repeatability was between 0.2 and 15% and the reproducibility between 0.2 and 18%. Concerning the analyzed samples, residues of many pesticides have been found in each sample. Samples collected from the plain of Akkar and the Byblos area, widely known for their agricultural productions, were the most contaminated by pesticides. In fact, pesticide levels found in honey collected from Akkar and Byblos were 1753.92 and 695.13 ng g -1 respectively. Contrariwise, samples collected from the Cedars of Lebanon had the lowest pesticides concentration with a total concentration of 19.5 ng g -1 .In conclusion, this study shows that honey can indicate the specific pollution of a given environment and can be considered as an appropriated sentinel for environmental biomonitoring.

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Occurrence of pesticide residues in Italian honey from different areas in relation to its potential contamination sources

Cited by 95 publications

References 17 publications

Survey of Italian honeys for the presence of foreign matter using the filth test

Survey of Italian honeys for the presence of foreign matter using the filth test

Characterization of phenolic profile alterations in metal-polluted bee pollen via capillary electrophoresis

The use of honey as environmental biomonitor of pesticides contamination in northern Lebanon

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