Manual for the Production of Safe and Quality Honey

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.