EMAN srl - Quality

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This process starts by having a good sanitary control, following the times to fulfil the corresponding maintenance in the year, and also a good managing of the inert material, with the filtering of rises and floors or with the change of a third of a board of the beehive per year.

Continuing with this process, in case of finding beehives with some disease, they are separated from the rest and a sample is sent to be analized by the Department of Agrarian Matters to confirm the diagnosis from our qualified apicultural inspector.
During the crop we try to use all the procedures which do not alter the quality of the honey, the crop is done by taking the bees out of the board with a brush of sow moistened with water or by the air blown to avoid damaging the bees, we do not use carbolic acid for this process because it can leave residue in the product.

The rises with its respective boars are located on trays of unoxidizable steel waiting for the extraction, which will take place in facilities by machineries that follows all the SENASA 353/02 rules using equipment of unoxidizable steel, with low temperature in the process and primary filtering, then it pass to a decanter tank and finally to the drums.

Process of Quality Control for Packaging

To the drums acquired from other producers, controls are done by the set of instruments that consist in:
1) Drill
2) Sample-extractor Jar
3) Sample-extractor Pipette

A sample of the drum is taken by the following way:
In solid honey: with help of the drill.
In liquid honey that can be homogeneized: The pipette is introduced till extracting 500 grams of sample.
In Liquid honey that cannot be homogeneized: It is extracted with the Sample-extractor Jar, three portions of approximately 50 grams of different levels:

Low, Average and High
For fractionated honey the sampling is the following one:

From 1 to 3 jars – Totality of the sample
From 4 to 25 jars – 3 jars
From 26 to 150 jars – 4 jars
From 151 to 500 jars – 5 jars
More than 500 jars – 7 jars

During the transport, the samples must not overcome 20 centigrate degrees.

The analyses to do are the following ones:

1) Reducers Sugars
2) Humidity, refractometrical method
3) Apparent saccharose
4) Solids, insoluble in water
5) Minerals (ashes)
6) Free acidity
7) Diastase Activity
8) HydroxyMethylFurfuraldehyde (HMF)
9) Coliforms
10) Salmonella
11) Fenolic Residues and antibiotics

Being the most requires analysis, humidity, diastasic activity, HMF and residues, our company will also do any other type of analysis according to the SENASA (National Service of Animal Health) requirements, by laboratories of the destination country or by the client himself. In all the cases, samples of the items are registered for its later review in triplicate copies, supplier – laboratory – client.

A particular case is the topic of the color, the existing flowering in our country gives us the whole scale.

Commercial scale of color Equivalence in technical scale PFUND

Water White – 1 to 8 mm.
Extra White – 8 a 16,5 mm.
White – 16,5 to 34 mm.
Extra Clear Amber - 34 to 50 mm.
Clear Amber - 50 to 85 mm.
Amber - 85 to 114 mm.
Dark - more than 114 mm.

Our level of color for some products is an Extra Clear Amber (34 to 50 mm).
The specifications indicated below are contemplated in our protocol.

SPECIFICATIONS MAXIMUM - MINIMUM
Apparent content of reducer sugar expressed in % (gr/100gr) of reversed sugar. 63.88
Content of saccharose % (gr/100gr). - 5
Content of glucose % (gr/100gr). - 38
Humidity % (gr/100gr) - 20
Insoluble Solids in water % (gr/100gr) - 0.3
Ashes % (gr/100gr) - 0.6
Acidity expressed as equivalent mili of acid / kg - 40
HydroxyMethylFurfuraldehyde (HMF), expressed in mg/kg in stiff honey of more than 6 months - 80
HydroxyMethylFurfuraldehyde (HMF), expressed in mg/kg in stiff honey of less than 6 months. - 40
Index of diastase - 8.0*

*For the honeys with low content of enzymes, the minimal index of diastase in Gothe's scale will be of 3.0 only if it does not exceed in the content in HMF of 15 mg/kg

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