Mountain honey

Phenol has been reported at concentrations of 7 and 28.6 ppm in smoked summer sausage and smoked pork belly, respectively (EPA 1980), and was identified but not quantified in mountain cheese (Dumont and Adda 1978), fried bacon (Ho et al. 1983), fried chicken (Tang et al. 1983), and black fermented tea (Kaiser 1967). Phenol has also been found in honey at concentrations ranging from 0 (detection limit 0.1 ppm) to 19 ppm (Spoms 1981). It was present each time the honey was collected with phenol-treated boards. 

Mountain-ash (Sorbus aucuparia L.) honey is reddish in color, with a strong aroma and pleasant flavor. 

From the obtained data result that the most frequently detected OCPs were in linden and locust honey and in sunflower, mountain flower, fir and conifer honey was detected only one or two pesticides. Organochlorines were not detected in honey obtained from various flowers in two regions of Romania. 

Poisonous honey (pontius or insane honey) has been known since the time of the Greek historian and general, Xenophon, and the Roman writer, Plinius, It comes mostly from bees collecting their nectar from rhododendron species (Asia Minor, Caucasus Mountains) some plants of the... 

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