Altıparmak Food Industry and Trade Inc. (Balparmak)

EU Legislative Interests

Directive (EU) 2024/1438 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 May 2024 amending Council Directives 2001/110/EC relating to honey

Communication Activities

Articles Published in SCI – SSCI and AHCI Indexed Journals; • ‘‘Single Pot In-Situ Aqueous Derivatization and Subsequent Determination of Streptomycin and Dihydrostreptomycin Residues in Honey by Means of Mass Spectrometry.‘‘, Food Chemistry, 2022. (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodchem.2022.134826) • ‘‘Straightforward Monitoring of Honey with Foreign Diastase by Leveraging the Differentiation in LC-UV Proteome Profiles of Authentic and Fraudulent Samples.‘‘, Microchemical Journal, 2023. (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.microc.2023.109039) • ‘‘Development of a novel pretreatment protocol for the efficient isolation and enrichment of honey proteome using pine honey and the hypopharyngeal glands of Apis mellifera L.‘‘, Food Measurement and Characterization, 2022. (DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/s11694-022-01380-8) • ‘’Validation of two UHPLC-MSMS methods for a fast and reliable determination of quinolone residues in honey.’’, Food Additives & Contaminants Part A, 2021. (DOI: 10.1080/19440049.2021.1881621) • ‘‘Analytical Investigation of Active Compound Contents of Panax ginseng C.A. Meyer and Ginkgo Biloba L. Supplements Fortified with Apitherapy Products’’, International Journal of Secondary Metabolite, 2021. (DOI: 10.21448/ijsm.832424) • ‘‘Identification of the Rice Syrup Adulterated Honey by Introducing a Candidate Marker Compound for Brown Rice Syrups’’, LWT Food Science & Technology, 2021. (DOI: 10.1016/j.lwt.2021.112618) • ‘‘Elucidating the False Positive Tendency at AOAC 998.12 C-4 Sugar Test for Pine Honey Samples: Modified Sample Preparation Method for Accurate δ13C Measurement of Honey Proteome.‘‘, Journal of Food Composition and Analysis, 2022. (DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfca.2022.104787) • ‘’Multivariate Optimization of a new LC-MS/MS Method for the Determination of 156 Pesticide Residues in Milk and Dairy Products’’, Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, 2020. (DOI:10.1002/jsfa.10540) • ‘‘The evaluation of L-arginine solution as a solvent for propolis extraction: the phenolic profile, antioxidant, antibacterial activity, and in vitro bioaccessibility‘‘, Food Science & Nutrition, 2023. (DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/fsn3.3953) • ‘‘Comprehensive estrogenic/anti-estrogenic, anticancer, mutagenic/anti-mutagenic, and genotoxic/anti-genotoxic activity studies on chemically characterized black poplar and Eurasian aspen propolis types.‘‘, Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis, 2023. (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpba.2023.115241) • ‘‘Phenolic Compounds, Organic Acids, Elements, and Carbohydrate Profiles of Pine and Blossom Honey.‘‘, European Food Research and Technology, 2023. (DOI:10.1007/s00217-023-04230-z) • ‘‘Development of propolis and essential oils containing oral/throat spray formulation against SARS-CoV-2 infection.‘‘, Journal of Functional Foods, 2022. (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jff.2022.105225) Published books on honey and beekeeping; • We Are the Bee, • the Honey Lies with Us, • Apitherapy, • Hygiene Techniques For the Beekeepers, • Bee Products and Our Health, • From Their Toil Floweth Honey, • The Beekeepers Handbook, • Modern Beekeeping Techniques, • Istanbul’s Hidden Hives, • Istanbul’s Honey Plants. Events e.g.; Balparmak sponsored the 45th and 47th Apimondia International Beekeeping Conferences in Istanbul, bringing together industry professionals and scientists worldwide. During these conferences, Balparmak Research & Quality Control Center Hosts 600 Scientists. To date, more than 70 peer-reviewed oral and poster presentations were submitted by Balparmak scientists in the conferences and they were deemed worthy of many awards. Balparmak experts also take the role of Peer Reviewers in International Journals and play a major role by directing the food science trends. Up to now, more than 90 review submissions to Q1 & Q2 Journals (n=10) for the food research-related manuscripts were completed.

Interests Represented

Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members

Member Of

Balparmak is the founding member of BAL-DER (Healthy Living Platform Association with Bee Products). Balparmak also holds memberships in the organizations below; • Food Safety Association (GDD), • International Honey Exporters Organization (IHEO), • International Honey Commission (IHC), • Association of Calibration and Test Laboratories (TURKLAB). • Mirror Technical Committees of Turkish Standard Organization (TSE) / International Standard Organization (ISO) - TC34/SC19 Bee Products - WG-1, WG-2, WG-3, WG-4 • T.R. Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry - Bee products Sub-Commission