Organized by Concepción Beekeepers Association - Apionce A.G. and Bio Bio Beekeeping Association A.G. on may the 2nd,2007. Speaker Doctor Jesús Llorente Martínez from Spain

A honey shipment incoming Latvia with non authorized substances

As a result of the new norm for the export of honey demanded by European Unión (UE), the Apicultural Regional network of VII the Region met with Mitzi Jeldres, regional director of the INDAP, to analyze the changes to follow. If the extraction forms do not adapt to the required thing, the main ones affected will be the small agriculturists, since according to Misael Caves, president of the beekeepers of the province of Conception, “nobody in VII the Region fulfills the exigencies of the European Union”. The new form of work, that will be controlled by Cattle the Agricultural Service and, will enter use the 1 of May and puts in risk almost 300 tons of honey of the zone of the Maule, that correspond to a 36% of the total of the shipments of this product.

A mysterious phenomenon happens in the United States: the bees have not returned to the beehives and disappeared 60% of the beehives of that country. There are several hypotheses of what it could have past, but nothing confirmed and the losses already adds 18 trillions of dollars. In Uruguay it happens something similar, but the causes are clear: thousands of beehives by an acarus of frightful name, “varroa destructor”.

According to a market study , 75% of the Madrilenians know the legal obligation which the commercialized meats tell on labeling that it allows to have access to one complete information on the product and to know who is its person in charge. The remaining percentage is not to the current of the necessary food traceability, that supposes an effective system of control and trustworthy source of information on the movements that the meat makes from the operation to the commerce.

Ainia technological center in Santiago of Chile, on April 17 and 18th, will coordinate a seminary that will reunite more than two hundred of the main Chilean agro-alimentary companies. The Chilean Government, through EuroChile, has organized the seminary so that expert in traceability and technological monitoring of ainia presents the industralists their country these subjects, in individual explains and orients on application of new technologies for the food control, the fresh use of technology in the traceability of meats and fruits, as well as the application of the transference of technology in companies of the agro-alimentary sector.