The Food Detectives : comment repérer le faux miel
Les meilleurs experts européens en matière de sécurité alimentaire unissent leurs forces pour lutter contre la fraude. Euronews les suit dans cette série spéciale intitulée The Food Detectives. Dans l'épisode 4, nous rencontrons l'équipe qui lutte contre le faux miel en Espagne.
En partenariat avec the European Union & the Watson Project
00:00Europe's best food safety experts are joining forces to crack down on fraud.
00:05Euronews is following them in this special series called The Food Detectives.
00:10In this episode, we're following the team fighting fake honey in Spain.
00:21Honey can only be made by bees.
00:24However, what's labelled as honey in the shops isn't always pure.
00:27In fact, it can contain all kinds of other illicit sugars, as beekeeping food detective Julio Fernandez explains.
00:44The problem is widespread.
00:46One study found that nearly half of the honey imported into the EU had been mixed with other sugars.
00:52It makes us feel bad for farmers who love our profession.
00:56Because that type of honey makes us a bad competition in the market
01:00because they reach very cheap prices with which traditional agriculture can't compete.
01:04Food detective Armando Menendez from the EU's Watson project is working on a camera that can spot fake honey.
01:11The camera can also determine which plant nectar the bees consumed, which has an impact on its market value.
01:18It's an important tool against mislabeling.
01:20The tool will be able to identify, in real time, what type of botanical origin is the honey.
01:27And this can help to detect, in real time, what type of botanical origin is the honey.
01:28And this can help first detect the wrong ones, and also help the producer to know what type of etiquette they can put in their product.
01:34The food detectives are now testing this small infrared camera to beat honey fraud.
01:41It could be used to check quality at the beekeeper's property, avoiding lengthy and expensive lab tests.
01:47Con este dispositivo, la persona que va a hacer los controles de calidad recoge in situ muestras de miel,
01:54las prepara en un portamuestras de forma muy rápida y sencilla, la coloca en el sensor,
01:59y en pocos segundos tiene la información sobre si es una miel, o si es una miel o si es una miel,
02:04o si es una miel o si es una miel o si es una miel o si es una miel o si es una miel o si es una miel.
02:10To better understand how to identify the adulterated honey, the team built a database of both hive-made honey and sugary syrups that imitate the work of the bees.
02:31Food detective Noemi Quintanal shows us the simple recipe for fake honey.
02:36Las mieles adulteradas son muy fáciles de sintetizar.
02:39Partimos de miel pura y de un sirope 100%.
02:42Principalmente utilizamos dos siropes, que son los siropes de arroz y siropes de maíz, los más utilizados hoy en día en el mercado.
02:50Ahora pesamos los gramos de sirope necesarios para llevar esta miel adulterada a X porcentaje de adulteración.
03:01Y para finalizar, bueno, debemos realizar una agitación leve para evitar la formación de burbujas.
03:07Y ahora ya tendríamos sintetizado nuestra miel adulterada.
03:11The fake and real honey database is used to train the system to recognize different samples and detect fraud.
03:18A día de hoy esta base de datos consta de aproximadamente 110 muestras de miel pura y 120 muestras de miel adulterada.
03:25El dispositivo desarrollado en el proyecto Watson podría utilizarse en otro tipo de mieles, aumentando la base de datos, es decir, midiendo o analizando esas nuevas muestras que se quieren posteriormente medir con este dispositivo.
03:38This honey research is centered on the Spanish region of Asturias.
03:42It mostly benefits local authorities who can use the camera technology to verify the quality of honey sold in the region.
03:49And they hope it can be used further afield, too.
03:52While fake honey isn't bad for your health,
04:14Beekeeper Julio encourages consumers to check the quality label when they're buying a jar.
04:19I hope that they can finish with fraud in the sector of the sale of milk.
04:25All those milk that come from different countries, from different origins, from different qualities,
04:32will be subject to the same controls that make us subject to the apicultors or ambassadors of the national territory.
04:39And, above all, to be aware of the people that we need to buy a certified product,
04:44whether it be the cost of the same, because it's a guarantee for the consumer.
04:48That's all for this episode.
04:50Next time on The Food Detectives, we're in Portugal,
04:52where connected vineyards promise total traceability in wine.
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