Manual for the Production of Safe and Quality Honey Pays/Territoire Géorgie Type du document Miscellaneous Date 2019 Source FAO, FAOLEX Sujet Bétail, Alimentation et nutrition Mot clé Apiculture/sériciculture Équipement Contrôle de qualité alimentaire/innocuité des produits alimentaires Transformation/manutention Commerce intérieur Commerce international Hygiène/procédures sanitaires Normes Transport/dépôt Aliments pour animaux Santé des animaux Production animale Parasites/maladies Aire géographique Asie, Mer Noire, Europe de l'Est, Europe, Europe et Asie Centrale, Asie Occidentale Résumé 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. Texte intégral Géorgien