Assessment of the Ecological Safety of Honey with the Help of “Factor Area” Models

Igor Palamarchuk, Leonora Adamchuk, Vladyslav Palamarchuk, Mykola Andrushchenko, Olesia Priss, Szymon Glowacki (), Taras Hutsol () and Olena Bezaltychna
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Igor Palamarchuk: Department of Processes and Equipment of Agricultural Production Processing, National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine, Heroiv Oborony Str. 15, 03-041 Kyiv, Ukraine
Leonora Adamchuk: Laboratory of Methods for Assessing the Quality and Safety of Beekeeping Products, National Science Center “PI Prokopovich Institute of Beekeeping”, Akademika Zabolotnoho Str. 19, 03-680 Kyiv, Ukraine
Vladyslav Palamarchuk: Department of Commodity Science, Expertise, and Trade Entrepreneurship, Vinnytsia Institute of Trade and Economics, State University of Trade and Economics, Soborna, 87, 21-050 Vinnytsia, Ukraine
Mykola Andrushchenko: Department of Food Technologies and Hotel and Restaurant Business, Dmytro Motornyi Tavria State Agrotechnological University, 72-312 Melitopol, Ukraine
Olesia Priss: Department of Food Technologies and Hotel and Restaurant Business, Dmytro Motornyi Tavria State Agrotechnological University, 72-312 Melitopol, Ukraine
Szymon Glowacki: Department of Fundamentals of Engineering and Power Engineering, Institute of Mechanical Engineering, Warsaw University of Life Sciences (SGGW), 02-787 Warsaw, Poland
Taras Hutsol: Department of Mechanics and Agroecosystems Engineering, Polissia National University, Staryi Blvd 7, 10-008 Zhytomyr, Ukraine
Olena Bezaltychna: Department of Technology of Production and Processing of Livestock Products, Odesa State Agrarian University, Panteleimonivska Str. 13, 65-012 Odesa, Ukraine

Sustainability, 2024, vol. 16, issue 22, 1-12

Abstract: The man-made load on the environment and the decrease in biodiversity cause a direct negative environmental impact on the existence of honey bees and beekeeping products. The priority directions of the food industry are the use of high-quality environmentally friendly raw materials and the prevention of the ingress and formation of harmful substances in food products, including honey. This implies the need to develop methods for assessing the environmental safety of the studied raw materials and products. The purpose of this study was to implement a mathematical modeling method for studying the environmental safety of honey. Five types of honey were studied: Robinia, rapeseed, linden, buckwheat, and sunflower. Mathematical models were built according to the following parameters: total activity of β-emitting radionuclides; residues of levomycetin (chloramphenicol), nitrofuran (according to AOZ and AMOZ), metronidazole, and pesticides (according to hexachloran); and the content of water-insoluble substances (mechanical impurities) and heavy metals. On the basis of the obtained data and established quality criteria, calculation graphic models were built. Using algebraic methods, they derived new formulas for calculating quality coefficients. Multivariate analysis and programming methods were used to evaluate honey using mathematical modeling. The most and least ecologically dangerous contaminants and their share of influence for different types of honey were determined based on the complex of research on negative factors. The proposed mathematical models can be implemented for practical use in specialized laboratories as a tool for determining the environmental safety of honey of various botanical origins.

Keywords: quality; ?-emitting radionuclides; chloramphenicol; nitrofuran; metronidazole; mechanical impurities; pesticides; heavy metals; environment; food product; graphic model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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