The Food Detectives: come riconoscere il miele contraffatto

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The Food Detectives: come riconoscere il miele contraffatto

I migliori esperti europei di sicurezza alimentare uniscono le forze per contrastare le frodi. Euronews li segue in questa serie speciale, The Food Detectives. Nell'episodio 4, conosciamo il team che lotta contro il miele contraffatto in Spagna.

In collaborazione con the European Union & the Watson Project

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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,

00:31as beekeeping food detective Julio Fernández 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.

00:57This type of honey makes us a lack of competition in the market because they come to a very cheap price

01:02with which traditional agriculture can't compete.

01:05The food detective Armando Menéndez 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.

01:31It's an important tool against mislabeling.

01:34The tool will be able to identify, in real time, what type of botanical origin is the honey.

01:40And this can help first detect the wrong ones,

01:43and also help the producer to know what type of etiquette is the one they can put in their product.

01:49The food detectives are now testing this small infrared camera to beat honey fraud.

01:54It could be used to check quality of the beekeeper's property, avoiding lengthy and expensive lab tests.

02:00Con este dispositivo, la persona que va a hacer los controles de calidad recoge in situ muestras de miel,

02:07las prepara en un portamuestras de forma muy rápida y sencilla, la coloca en el sensor,

02:13y en pocos segundos tiene la información sobre si es una miel que está adulterada o es pura.

02:21To better understand how to identify the adulterated honey,

02:24the team built a database of both hive-made honey and sugary syrups that imitate the work of the bees.

02:30Food detective Noemi Quintanel shows us the simple recipe for fake honey.

02:35Las 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,

02:46los 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.

03:00Y para finalizar, bueno, debemos realizar una agitación leve para evitar la formación de burbujas.

03:07Y ahora ya tendríamos sintetizado nuestra miel adulterada.

03:10The 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.

03:24El dispositivo desarrollado en el proyecto Watson podría utilizarse en otro tipo de mieles, aumentando la base de datos,

03:31es decir, midiendo o analizando esas nuevas muestras que se quieren posteriormente medir con este dispositivo.

03:38This honey research is centred 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.

03:51It's a tool that's very expected, very necessary, and we're hoping that we can homologize it.

03:58It will help consumers to know what milk they're choosing and why they have to pay it.

04:03That added value that the milk has, it will be an important advance, not only for Asturias, not only for Spain, but also for Europe.

04:11While fake honey isn't bad for your health,

04:14beekeeper Julio encourages consumers to check the quality label when they're buying a jar.

04:18I hope that we can finish with the fraud in the sector of the sale of milk.

04:25All those milk that come from different countries, from different origins, from different qualities,

04:31will be subject to the same controls that make us subject to the apicultors or ambassadors of the national territory.

04:39And, above all, we must be aware of the people that we have to buy a certified product,

04:43whether it be the cost of the same price, because it's a guarantee for the consumer.

04:47That's all for this episode, next time on The Food Detectives, we're in Portugal,

04:52where connected vineyards promise total traceability in wine.

04:55See you then.

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