QUALITY OF NATURAL HONEY AFTER TREATMENT OF HONEY BEE COLONIES WITH NEOMYCIN.

Our country occupies first place in Europe and the third in the world in terms of honey production. However, there are problems with the honey export in Ukraine associated with the detection of antibiotics. In addition to compliance with safety indicators in accordance with the standards of Ukraine and the European Union, the quality control of honey is carried out by physicochemical parameters. The aim of the study was to determine the quality of linden honey after treatment of honey bee colonies with 1% solution of neomycin, an antibiotic that is often used by beekeepers in the treatment and prevention of infectious diseases in honey bees. 25 groups of honey bee colonies, which were kept under natural conditions in the apiary of the Laboratory of technological and special measures for honey bee diseases prevention at the National Science Centre "Institute of beekeeping named P. I. Prokopovich", were used in the experimental study. It was found that most of the physical and chemical parameters met the requirements of DSTU 4497:2005 "Natural honey. Technical conditions", except for water and sucrose mass fractions when feeding bees by the syrup with a 0.1% neomycin solution. Indicators of water and sucrose mass fractions when feeding syrup with 0.1% neomycin solution did not meet the requirements of the current national standard and constituted: water - 24.16 ± 0.08% on the 10th day, 24.13 ± 0.06% on the 30th day, 24.00 ± 0.11% on the 120th day; sucrose - 8.23 ± 0.09% on the 10th day, 6.08 ± 0.11% on the 30th day, 5.93 ± 0.07% on the 120th day. Thus, the dynamics of physicochemical parameters of linden honey on the 10th day of the experiment and after 30 and 120 days of storage depended on the treatment of honey bee colonies with 1% neomycin solution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]