Manual for the Production of Safe and Quality Honey Country/Territory Georgia Document type Miscellaneous Date 2019 Source FAO, FAOLEX Subject Livestock, Food & nutrition Keyword Apiculture/sericulture Equipment Food quality control/food safety Processing/handling Internal trade International trade Hygiene/sanitary procedures Standards Transport/storage Animal feed/feedstuffs Animal health Animal production Pests/diseases Geographical area Asia, Black Sea, Eastern Europe, Europe, Europe and Central Asia, Western Asia Abstract This Manual contains legislative requirements, guidelines and recommendations for the production of safe and quality honey. Among others, it provides for the model practice of bee-keeping; selection of the location for a bee hive and placing a bee family; selecting a bee family; general principles for checking a bee family; a spring check-up; questions to be asked while checking a bee family; routine summer check-up; swarm prevention; harvesting honey; nucleus (small sized new family); the end-of-summer work; checking the queen bee and treatment for varroa mites; additional feeding of families; emergency and urgent feeding; preparing the sugar syrup; feeders; processing of honey and quality management; hygiene requirements and HACCP; and honey processing facility, equipment, and storage. Full text Georgian