Certificates And Awards

Whereupon do you need to keep your eye on? For one thing on a good program, important learning contents and learn aims. Beyond that naturally on good teachers.

If the teachers havent’t been trained yet adequately, it may happen, that such a teacher, be it a beekeeper, beekeeper master, or engineer, get engaged for the honey seminar, but one can’t count with him in all fields.

For example: A beekeeper master wrote an article in the german bee journal regarding production of honeycombs honey: „Also clean honeycombs honey is endeared. Thereto smaller wood frames are being furnished with foundation stripes (.. .) These small honeycombs will be offered in cased plastic (.. .)" (Staemmler 2003).

It is selfevident that for honeycombs production not any foundations, or foundation stripes get used, not only because this can be contaminated with pesticides; they generally do not belong at all in the honeycombs honey. Also good honeycombs honey is usually not being filled in plastic cases.

Apart from that is a honey seminar, as it is offered at the German beeinstitutes, of great benefit. The honey certificate of the D.I.B. (Dustmann 2003), that is being given out to the empowerment for the using of the D.I.B. Trade mark at the end of the honey seminar, places an alternative to the ordinary „Bio" („organic") -certificates - at least in Germany.

One thing is becomming clearer and clearer: The predicate „Bioimker" („organic beekeeper"), which many a foxy beekeeper tacks on the sleeve, boil down to nothing else but a „confidence trick" (Dustmann 2003a), or „touting" (ibid).

Prof. Jost H. Dustmann/PhD estimates the phrasing „Bio" („organic"), or „Öko " („eco") before the word honey as „superfluous and improper" (Dustmann 2003a). It inveigle the not with the state of affairs trusted consumer to wrong ideas or misconceptions, to the assumption, to find regarding „organic"- honey something which is especially „natural ", of higher value. According to (Dustmann 2003a) this is yet an „erroneous belief ".

We can only confirm that. We have reported in diverse articles and press - releases.

Thus, what can be concluded?: Either D.I.B. Certificate, or D.I.B. Certificate plus T+T certificates (for the beekeepers in Germany) resp. T+T certificates and awards (for beekeepers worldwide) awarded by T+T Council, valid not only in Germany but internationally.

Literature
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Full version in: Apiculture Vol. 2 issue 3/2003