NOD APIARY PRODUCTS' STORY OF INNOVATION THE CHALLENGE

Before a pesticide can be marketed and used in the United States, the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) requires that EPA evaluate the proposed pesticide to assure that its use will not pose unreasonable risks of harm to human health and the environment. EPA also determines whether there is a reasonable certainty of no harm from pesticide residues in food or feed and sets tolerances, or exemptions from tolerances, for allowable residues of pesticides in food and animal feed under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetics Act (FFDCA), as amended by the Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA). In the void of a standard of identity for honey in the U.S., NOD has adopted the one set within the European Union as its standard of reference for total free acid; however it does not address the complex and variable medley of acids that are naturally present in honey, including formic acid1. [...]NOD turned to peer-reviewed literature for the levels of formic acid that could be expected to be found naturally in honey.