Turkey: No additives can be used in royal jelly, pollen, and bee bread

The Ministry prepared the Turkish Food Codex Bee Products Notification Draft. Within the scope of the draft Communiqué, he purchases bee products such as royal jelly, royal jelly powder, propolis products, bee pollen, dried bee pollen and bee bread (perga), which are put on the market as food or supplementary food. However, mixtures of these products or other foods or supplements used as ingredients will not be covered by the regulation. The draft also identified the compounds and definitions of commercially available bee products. Accordingly, no bee product will contain any impurities. Propolis will comply with the characteristics specified in national or international standards, especially international standards. It will also be forbidden to add external substances to royal jelly, royal jelly powder, bee pollen, dried bee pollen and bee bread. Minimum pollen contents of bee pollen, dried bee pollen and bee bread by plant source such as heather, canola, alfalfa, sunflower, ...