Antibiotics

The national standards have set no requirement for antibiotics. In 2010, Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) found antibiotics in their study of honey. In this context, we decided to verify the presence of antibiotics in honey and conducted tests to determine the presence of six antibiotics – namely oxytetracycline, chloramphenicol, ampicillin, enrofloxacin, ciprofloxacin and erythromycin. None of these six antibiotics was detected in any of the brands.