Short Communications
Vol. 1 No. 1zero (2011)
https://doi.org/10.4081/ijfs.2011.890

BEE AS ENVIRONMENTAL BIOINDICATOR: FIRST RESULTS IN PIEDMONT

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Received: 4 January 2013
Published: 8 January 2011
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bee, neonicotinoids, pesticides, heavy metal, PCB.

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P. Guaraldo
lucia.zoppi@pagepress.org
IZS-PLV Sezione Asti e Centro Apistico Regionale, Viale Pilone, 113 – 14100 Asti, Italy.
A. Rosso
IZS-PLV Sezione Asti e Centro Apistico Regionale, Viale Pilone, 113 – 14100 Asti, Italy.
M.C. Abete
IZS-PLV Controllo Chimico Ambientale con annesso Creaa, via Bologna 148 - 10154 Torino, Italy.
R. Tarasco
IZS-PLV Controllo Chimico Ambientale con annesso Creaa, via Bologna 148 - 10154 Torino, Italy.
A. Ferrari
IZS-PLV Sezioni Genova e Savona con annesso Cerovec coord. Liguria, Piazza Borgo Pila, 39 – int.24 - 16129 Genova, Italy.
L. Masiello
IZS-PLV Sezioni Genova e Savona con annesso Cerovec coord. Liguria, Piazza Borgo Pila, 39 – int.24 - 16129 Genova, Italy.
L. Sala
ASL Biella - Servizio Veterinario, Italy.
P. Mogliotti
IZS-PLV Sezione Asti e Centro Apistico Regionale, Viale Pilone, 113 – 14100 Asti, Italy.
Many investigators have employed honeybees or honeybee products (honey, wax, pollen) as tools for assessing environmental pollution in industrial areas. Several reports refer of their utility in monitoring environmental radionuclides or heavy metal contamination. The objective of this study was to investigate the potential impact of pollution on Biella area, located in the east of Piedmont region. A survey of 6 apiaries was carried out, samples of: honey, beeswax, bees and pollen were collected and analyzed for: pesticides and PCB, neonicotinoides and heavy metal; by GC/MS, LC/MS/MS or AAS. We found 23% of samples of bees contained neonicotinoides, suggesting the correlation with bees mortality.

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BEE AS ENVIRONMENTAL BIOINDICATOR: FIRST RESULTS IN PIEDMONT. Ital J Food Safety [Internet]. 2011 Jan. 8 [cited 2026 May 7];1(1zero):283-4. Available from: https://www.pagepressjournals.org/ijfs/article/view/ijfs.2011.1S.283

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