Toxicological aspects and the sustainability factor in Brazilian beekeeping

Abstract

Brazilian legislation conceptualizes honey as the "food product produced by honey bees, from the nectar of flowers or secretions from living parts  of plants or from excretions of plant-sucking insects that are on living parts of plants, which bees collect, transform, combine with specific substances of their own, store and mature in the honeycombs.  The term "sustainability" is derived from the word sustainable (latin "sus-tenere")  which defines the  ability to sustain or support certain conditions.  Currently, it has been widely  used in socioeconomic and environmental issues, mainly. Studying toxicological aspects in Brazilian beekeeping united with sustainability was the objective of this work.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.56238/methofocusinterv1-024