What are the effects of pesticides in honey products on human health?

Pesticides enter the human body through bee products and accumulate in fat and liver, thus affecting the normal physiological activities of the human body. Its harm to the human body is currently believed to have the following aspects. Effects on nerves Organochlorine pesticides are neurotoxic.

Eating a large amount of drops, DDT will harm the nerve center, so that spasms and death, but the human body inhalation is not large when used, so it will not cause acute poisoning. Organophosphorus pesticides have also recently been thought to have delayed neurotoxicity, to which humans are particularly susceptible. Carcinogenic effects: Animal experiments have proved that pesticides such as DDT have obvious carcinogenicity.

Although animal experiments cannot be completely extrapolated to humans, they can reflect its harm to humans. Organochlorine pesticides on the liver can induce changes in liver enzymes, which can alter biochemical processes in the body, leading to liver enlargement and necrosis. In addition, it can invade the kidneys and cause lesions.

Induced mutant DDT and herbicide 245-Notus are mutagenic substances, i.e., genotoxic, which can cause teratogenesis, affect the health of offspring and shorten the life expectancy. Chronic poisoningOrganochlorine pesticides cause fatigue, headache, loss of appetite, liver and kidney damage, etc. With the improvement of living standards, bee products have become one of the common foods in daily life, especially honey, which contains various vitamins, minerals and amino acids in addition to glucose and fructose, which is not only a nutritious food, but also has a certain medicinal value and has a certain curative effect on some chronic diseases.

Although honey has been processed by bees, it still comes from plants, which inevitably involves the problem of pesticide residues, and the detection of pesticide residues is the basic means to ensure people's dietary safety. In recent years, the National Standards Committee, the Ministry of Commerce, and the Ministry of Agriculture have continuously updated the standards for the detection of pesticide residues in honey, and the relevant test items have increased to 486, which shows the importance of honey pesticide residue detection.

Rapeseed has aphid damage in the seedling stage, and needs to be controlled with pesticides, and generally no medicine is used during flowering, and the honey collected at this time will not be polluted by pesticides. If pesticides are still being applied at this time, it will be a disaster for the bees, and they will not be able to collect honey at all, so there is no need to worry that rape honey will be contaminated with pesticides. Most grasses have only pollen and no honey, so they don't contaminate honey.

Now growers are also aware of the importance of bees to pollinate their fruit trees, and large-scale orchards often invite bees to pollinate their trees in bee farms, and of course no pesticides are applied during the flowering period. If someone uses medicine during the flowering period, as mentioned earlier, can the bees still collect honey when they are dead? Taking a step back, assuming that the bee collects back the honey containing pesticides and it does not die by itself, the content must be very low, and the honey is not cut off like vegetables and fried immediately, and often has to go through the circulation links such as purchase and transportation before it can reach the consumer, and there is enough natural degradation of residual pesticides during this time.

Taking a step back, consumers buy freshly picked honey directly from beekeepers, and this honey also contains pesticide residues that bees do not die, and consumers take it back and take it, but the amount taken can only be calculated in a few grams, at most tens of grams, and it is impossible to calculate it in hundreds of grams like vegetables. So even if honey contains the same amount of pesticide residues as vegetables, since the amount of honey consumed is much less than the amount of vegetables consumed, the amount of pesticide residues entering the human body is much smaller than the amount of pesticide residues entering the human body by eating vegetables. It's okay to eat vegetables, and it's even better to eat honey.

In the beekeeping industry, it is not uncommon for bee colonies to die from poisoning due to pesticide application. For example, an orange orchard farmer in Jiangshan City, Zhejiang Province, sprayed pesticides on his orange trees without informing the beekeepers in the adjacent apiary, causing a large number of bees in 17 beekeepers to be poisoned and died, resulting in a direct economic loss of 5,100 yuan. For another example, in mid-April 1999, when the pear blossoms were in full bloom, a large number of 33 bees from a beekeeper in Bobantai Village, Mihe Town, Qingzhou City, Shandong Province suddenly died, resulting in a direct economic loss of 11,150 yuan.

After investigation, it was determined that the operation of spraying the insecticide parathion on the pear trees about 1000 m away from the bee colony by a pear orchard contractor in the same village was the main cause of the death of the bee colony.

Cruciferous crops rely mainly on insects to transmit pollen during the flowering period. Therefore, in general, villages with farming fields rent bees to pollinate flowering crops to increase seed yield. Jiang reported on an example of systemic insecticides influencing bees to pollinate cruciferous vegetables.

After aldicarb granules are applied in the soil, they not only have a good control effect on underground pests and nematodes, but also on various pests that damage aboveground stems and leaves, and the effective period can generally be maintained for more than 1 month. In the same area of mesh shed, for plants in the same flowering period, put the same amount of bees, it is found that the number of bees in the mesh shed with aldicarb is scarce, or even difficult to see, while the number of bees in the mesh shed without aldicarb is large, and they drill back and forth in the flowers, and stay for a long time. This indicates that aldicarb, which is absorbed by the plant from the root system and transmitted to the aerial part of the plant, has a repellent effect on bees, and may even kill bees directly.

Bees are sensitive to odors, and if there is a pesticide smell around the hive, the bees will not go out of the nest to collect even if the weather is good during the flowering period.

There have been no cases of honey itself being restrained against drugs, but honey, as a high-sugar substance, can reduce the secretion of gastric acid and can form a complex with antipyretic drugs, but it is recognized by the medical community. Therefore, the consumption of honey while taking stomach medicine and antipyretic medicine will reduce the efficacy of the drug.

1. No, it won't.

2. Check the health of bees is also one of the most work done by beekeepers, in order to ensure the quality of bee colonies, it is inevitable to sprinkle special drugs for sterilization, the country has clear regulations that do not allow the use of antibiotics and insecticides in the honey flow period, and most of the insecticides used in beekeeping are inulinoid drugs, and the dosage is very small.

3. Generally, beekeepers will not sprinkle medicine to cure diseases during the honey collection period, the flowering period is very precious, and the treatment of diseases during the flowering period affects the bees to collect honey, and the gains outweigh the losses. So don't worry too much about the quality of honey being affected by drugs.

First of all, you have to know that no matter what species, you can get sick, and bees are no exception.

The most common disease of bees is the attraction mite, which reproduces in the hive. It lays eggs in the uncovered larval room, reproduces in the covered larval room, parasitizes on the larvae, pupae and adult bees, and absorbs hemolymph, resulting in the shortening of the life span of bees, the decline of collection power, and the production of bee products. Heavily affected colonies have a large number of larvae and pupae dying.

The newly hatched young bees are incomplete, the young bees crawl everywhere, and the colony is rapidly weakened.

Therefore, checking the health of bees is also one of the most important jobs done by beekeepers, in order to ensure the quality of bee colonies, sprinkling sterilization is inevitable, the state has clear regulations that do not allow the use of antibiotics and insecticides during the honey flow period, most of the insecticides used in beekeeping are inulinoid drugs, the dosage is very small, you think that bees are okay to people can be imagined.

Moreover, generally during the honey collection period, beekeepers will not sprinkle medicine to cure diseases, the flowering period is very precious, during the flowering period to treat the disease affects the bees to collect honey, the gains outweigh the losses, and the disease is detected early. So don't worry too much about the quality of honey being affected by drugs.

The state has a clear rule that the use of antibiotics and insecticides is not allowed during the honey flow period, when the beekeeping is carried out before the dao.

Most of the insecticides used are inulinoid drugs, and the dosage is very small, so you can imagine that the bees are okay with people. However, there are still drug residues, and long-term use also has a certain impact on the human body. It will not affect the quality of honey and royal jelly, but there will be drug residues, so it is best to eat less.

If the bee gets sick, you can't eat it for 1 or 2 years.