Apidava quality and traceability

 

Each honey jar that leaves from Apidava factory has written on its label one unique Lot Number. It is, in fact, the DNA of that product, according to which we can establish the exact source of the honey contained by that jar, its physical-chemical characteristics, the quantity of honey packed from that lot, as well as all the traceability back to each beekeeper drum.

 

We test more then 50 parameters for each LOT number, from which the most common are: Humidity, HMF, Diastasa activity, Acidity, NMR- authenticity test, C3-C4 adulteration, Pollen content, Sucrose, Fructose, Glucose, Antibiotics residuues, Pesticides residuues.

 

The flow chart of the honey production is supervised as follows:

– the first control takes place when honey from beekeepers arrives in our facility. We take sample from each drum of each supplier and we test: humidity, HMF, pollen, colour, taste and flavour, antibiotics residuues and adulteration

– accepted honey is classified per type of honey, and each honey drum receives a batch number, in order to be easy trackable for traceability, and also analyzed for other extra parameters in german laboratory. A sample of each drum lot number is kept in the lab for minim 24 months, or even longer, if the honey is keept longer time in the warehouse.

-we storage honey in 300kg metallic drums, in a warehouse of 4.000 mp, with controlled temperature

– every lot of honey, is re-analyzed before production, on a representative sample, in order to assure that each honey lot composition meets the clients quality request

– during the entire technological process, 3 honey samples are drawn from each lot during processing time. The honey has to undergo several filtering stages in order to make sure that there are no impurities remaining from extraction.

– the final checking consists in drawing random samples from the  jars packaging line, in order to assure the guarantee of its quality.