New Standards on honey products
Thailand
Nov 15, 2024
The National Bureau of Food and Agricultural Products Standards has published a standard for honey products. The aspects to highlight from the standard are:
- Scope and Definition; Product Classification (Dehydrated Processed Honey and Unprocessed Honey).
- Quality Standard:
- No other ingredients shall be added to the honey; sensory requirements such as characteristic smell and color of honey.
- Chemical index requirements (e.g. unprocessed honey: moisture content ≤ 35%, sucrose content ≤ 5%, PH value: 2.5-4, hydroxymethylfurfural value ≤ 40mg/kg, etc.).
- Quality acceptance standard: beeswax ≤ 0.5%, no bubbles affecting the appearance and quality of the honey, and no additives; and standards for contaminants and microbiological are shown in the table below.
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