page_title: Apifresh
section_title: Objectives
hierarchical_section_title: Apifresh / Objectives
caption_attribution_description: English: Different pollen kinds depending on their shape
context_page_description: Apifresh is a European project funded by the European Commission 7th Framework Program. It started on 1 July 2010 and it will last three years. The project is developed by a Consortium set up by partners from different European Countries. It is formed by four Industrial Associations, three SMEs and three research centres.
  Apifresh project has come out in several media:
  La Rioja Government newsletter
  IST-WORLD
  Madrimasd
  Magazize O Apicultor
  Computers and Electronics in Agriculture
  Micron
context_section_description: The objective of the Apifresh project is to provide European beekeepers with the scientific and technological aids necessary to improve the quality of European pollen and royal jelly and also to promote the regulatory means that will allow European bee products compete under fair conditions against lower quality or adulterated products.
  These core objectives will be realised by means of the following achievements:
  The development of a quality standard aimed at protecting European pollen and royal jelly products against adulteration and contamination induced by environmental and bee-treatment toxic components
  The development of the knowledge and technological aids necessary to enforce compliance with the proposed standard, including:
  Definition of the analytical methods necessary to determine sensory properties, bacterial load, water content, chemical composition, and presence of pesticides and heavy metals.
  Determination of bee-product authenticity and unambiguous origin identification by means of PCR techniques
  Determination of the health enhancing compounds present in bee products.
  Development of a set of best practice guidelines for beekeep
  Development of a low-cost computer vision based decision support system for the identification of pollen vegetal species, relative proportions and geographical origin.
  The development of best practice guidelines aimed at improving the quality of pollen and royal jelly products in all phases of the production chain: harvesting, collecting, storage, transportation and presentation at the point of sale.
caption: Kinds of pollen
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