Department of Environmental Biotechnology, Lodz University of Technology, Lodz, Poland.
Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland.
Crit Rev Food Sci Nutr. 2023;63(21):5094-5116. doi: 10.1080/10408398.2021.2012752. Epub 2021 Dec 14.
Honey is a natural food with many pro-health properties, which comprises a wide variety of valuable ingredients. It can also be the source of chemical contaminants of environmental origin, including POPs that can contribute to adverse health effects to human. Monitoring the degree of pollution of honey/bee products with hazardous chemicals is important from a nutraceutical point of view. In the present work, overview of recent literature data on chemical pollutants in honey/bee products originating from the environment was performed. Their MLs, MRLs and EDI were discussed. It can be concluded that huge amount of research concerned on the presence of TMs and pesticides in honey. Most of the studies have shown that honey/bee products sampled from urban and industrialized areas were more contaminated than these sampled from ecological and rural locations. More pollutants were usually detected in propolis and bee pollen than in honey. Based on their research and regulations, authors stated, that most of the toxic pollutants of environmental origin in honey/bee products are at levels that do not pose a threat to the health of the potential consumer. The greatest concern relates to pesticides and TMs, because in some research MLs in individual samples were highly exceeded.
蜂蜜是一种具有许多有益健康特性的天然食品，它包含了许多有价值的成分。它也可能是环境来源的化学污染物的来源，包括 POPs，这些污染物可能对人类健康产生不利影响。从营养角度监测蜂蜜/蜂产品中危险化学品的污染程度非常重要。在目前的工作中，对源于环境的蜂蜜/蜂产品中化学污染物的最新文献数据进行了综述。讨论了它们的 MLs、MRLs 和 EDI。可以得出结论，大量的研究都集中在蜂蜜中 TM 和农药的存在上。大多数研究表明，与从生态和农村地区采集的样本相比，从城市和工业化地区采集的蜂蜜/蜂产品污染更严重。通常在蜂胶和蜂花粉中检测到的污染物比在蜂蜜中多。根据他们的研究和法规，作者指出，蜂蜜/蜂产品中大多数源于环境的有毒污染物的水平不会对潜在消费者的健康构成威胁。最大的担忧与农药和 TM 有关，因为在一些研究中，个别样本中的 ML 高度超标。
