Apis mellifera

• Thematic area:
• Integrated management of the production system
• Productive system:
• Beekeeping
• Geographic coverage:

• National

Description

The analysis of pesticide residues for agricultural use in bees, honey, and pollen, carried out at any stage of the beekeeping production process, allows the identification of the molecules and their levels present to determine their possible impact on the effects or mortality of populations, as well as on the safety of hive products.

The analysis of pesticide residues consists of searching at the agrochemical trace level, those that for some reason are found or appear as contaminants in bees, honey, or pollen bread and that may be causing effects such as the mortality of bees directly by contact or ingestion, or through its deposit in the apiary by honey or pollen bread.

This offer uses state-of-the-art chromatography equipment such as gas chromatography coupled to a triple quadrupole mass detector that allows using a very high sensitivity to detect concentrations in the order of parts per billion of a large number of molecules employed as active components of agrochemicals used for pest control.

This offer helps to determine the levels of chemical pesticides in the apiaries due to the use of agrochemicals in the crops surrounding the apiaries since, by using the application history, it is possible to make specific traces of agrochemicals used near or in the surroundings of the apiaries. The presence of these residues can also be determined; although they have not produced serious effects such as mortality, they are in honey or pollen bread.

The technology is used at any time during the production process since tracking can be done on the bees themselves without them being dead; the honey can be tracked before, during, and before harvest, as can the pollen bread. This ensures that these products are truly safe and available for human consumption.

This technological offer applies to the entire national territory.

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