Progress in Analytical Methods for the Characterization, Quality and Safety of the Beehive Products Ⅱ

Dear Colleagues,

Although beehive products have been known for millennia by humankind, their relevance in contemporary society is continuously growing. The most popular of them, honey, already used by the Neolithic man as a sweetener and medicament, is the subject of thousands of published contributions. In addition, scientists also show an untiring interest towards other beehive products such as beeswax, pollen, propolis, and royal jelly. The reasons for this success are several: Alongside the growing awareness of consumers that the biological and health properties of beehive foods strongly depend on factors such as freshness, quality, safety, and origin, the scientific and technologic evolution of the analytical approaches is reflected in the improvement of the specificity, sensitivity, accuracy, and robustness of the methods used for their characterization. Hence, this Special Issue of Molecules will be mainly addressed to collect original articles, reviews, and technical notes providing the most recent and performing methods aimed to characterize, in terms of both quality and safety, beehive and beehive-derived products. Emphasis will be devoted to original, fully validated methods, as well as to new chemometric procedures aimed at maximizing the information contained in analytical data.

Dr. Gavino Sanna
Dr. Marco Ciulu
Prof. Dr. Yolanda Picò
Dr. Nadia Spano
Dr. Carlo I.G. Tuberoso
Guest Editors

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