The Food Detectives: Hogyan lehet kiszúrni a hamis mézet

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The Food Detectives: Hogyan lehet kiszúrni a hamis mézet  Európa legjobb élelmiszer-biztonsági szakértői összefognak a csalások megfékezése érdekében. Az Euronews őket követi nyomon a The Food Detectives című sorozatában. A 4. epizódban találkozunk a csapattal, amelyik Spanyolországban küzd a hamis méz ellen.  Együttműködésben a the European Union & the Watson Project  BŐVEBBEN : http://hu.euronews.com/2025/10/20/the-food-detectives-hogyan-lehet-kiszurni-a-hamis-mezet  Iratkozzon fel: Az Euronews elérhető 12 nyelven

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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, as 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.

00:52It 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.

01:27The tool will be able to identify, in real time, what type of honey is the honey.

01:32And this can help to detect, first, errors and also help the producer to know what type of etiquette 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 at the beekeeper's property, avoiding lengthy and expensive lab tests.

02:00With this device, the person who is going to do the quality controls,

02:05recoge in-situ the honey samples.

02:08They prepare them in a very fast and simple way.

02:12They place them in the sensor.

02:14And in a few seconds, they have information about whether it's a honey that is adulterated or pure.

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.

02:31Food detective Noemi Quintanel shows us the simple recipe for fake honey.

02:36The adulterated honey are very easy to synthesize.

02:39We start from pure honey and 100% syrup.

02:43We mainly use two syrups, which are the syrups of rice and the corn syrup,

02:47the most used nowadays in the market.

02:49The fake and real honey database is used to train the system to recognize different samples and detect fraud.

03:17This honey research is centered on the Spanish region of Asturias.

03:20It mostly benefits local authorities who can use the camera technology to verify the disease.

03:23quality of honey sold in the region.

03:24And they hope it can be used further afield, too.

03:25This honey research is centered on the Spanish region of Asturias.

03:28It mostly benefits local authorities who can use the camera technology to verify the quality of honey sold in the region.

03:32And they hope it can be used further afield, too.

03:33This honey research is centered on the Spanish region of Asturias.

03:37It mostly benefits local authorities who can use the camera technology to verify the quality of honey sold in the region.

03:44And they hope it can be used further afield, too.

03:46It's an essential tool that is expected, very necessary, and we are now wishing to be able to homologize it.

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

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

04:12While fake honey isn't bad for your health,

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

04:19I hope that we can end the fraud in the sale of milk.

04:25That'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.

04:56See you then.

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