International Symposium on Authenticity and Quality of Bee Products
 and
the 2nd World Symposium on Honeydew Honey

After request of several colleagues, the deadline for abstract 
submission was postponed to 15 February 2010.
Organizing Committee
 

Dear honey scientists, dear beekeepers

The Apimondia International Honey Commission is glad to invite you to the Symposium on the Authenticity and Quality of Bee Products. This Symposium will also host the 2nd World Symposium on honeydew honey which will be the continuation of the 1st Symposium, held in Tzarevo, Bulgaria in Agust 2008. At the same time and place the  XII International Symposium on Soft Insects (www.xii-issis.gr) will be held so that the organizers plan a common Session along with entomologists working with honeydew secretion insects. Thus, members of IHC will have the opportunity to participate in a common Session with entomologists working with insect producing honeydew and discuss not only their products but also the physiology on honeydew secretion, the biology of insects producing honeydew, the prognosis of secretions and other important aspects of insect producing honeydew secretions and their products.

The Symposium is going to take place in the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute, Chania, Crete (MAIC) on April 7 -9^th of 2010.  

The goal of the Symposium is to reintegrate our knowledge on honeydew honeys, to enrich our understanding on insect producing honeydews and to justify the quality and authenticity of bee products. Communications are welcome in all aspects of honeydew honeys, on insect producing honeydews and on current work on the authenticity and quality of bee products. Papers are welcome on:

• Botanical and geographical denominations.

• Properties and composition

• Honeydew sources and harvest

• Insect producing honeydews

• Nutritional aspects

• Prognosis of secretions

• Bee manipulations for better production, etc.

All communications will be in English

International Scientific Committee

1. Werner von der Ohe, Germany

2. Stefan Bogdanov, Switzerland

3. Hermann Pechhacker, Austria.

4. Teresa Sancho, Spain

5. Christina Mattescu Romania

6. Andreas Thrasyvoulou, Greece

7. Muhsin Dogaroglu, Turkey

8. Sofia Gounari, Greece

9. Lugia B.A. Muradian

Local organizing  Committe

• Paschalis Harizanis,

• Iosif Manikis

• Efpraxia Fanouraki

• Dimosthenis Isaakidis

• Sofia Vartani

Chairmen

• Werner von der Ohe

• Stefan Bogdanov

Co-ordinator

• Andreas Thrasyvoulou  

Organisers

• International Honey Commission, International Bee Research Association (IBRA),

• National Inter Professional Honey and Beehive product Organization

• Hellenic Scientific Society of Apiculture- Sericulture,

• Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece (AUTh)

• Research Committee of AUTh

Patronage and Support

• Apimondia

• Hellenic Ministry of Rural Development and Food

• Research Committee of Aristotle University

• Hellenic Inter Professional Honey and Beehive product Organization