Label of Quality from the Apimondia Commission of Apitherapy, 2010 April

The Apitherapy Commission of Apimondia has set up new program to establish a standard of quality for products pertaining to Apitherapy. The program will provide a Gold Label which will protect the name apitherapy from being used for products that fail to reach the standards demanded in medicine.

Many years of research in the apitherapy field have given rise to more and more products being offered. A very large number of them are of good quality and have valid scientific references. But we begin to see on the market products we think of as worrisome, as they threaten the credibility of a science thousands of years old. Those very products could be then used to discredit the whole validity of our work.

Firms interested in participating should send their dossier as PDF to the President of the Commission, Dr. Théodore Cherbuliez; it should include:

• The name of the firm,
  
• Its juridical status,
  
• The address of its head office,
  
• The first and last names of the contact person, phone and fax numbers and e-mail,
  
• Name of the product, its relation to apitherapy, its ingredients: active ingredients and
• excipients with their percentage insofar as confidentiality allows,
  
• Medicinal claims
  
• Scientific references
  
• Packaging, posology.
  
• Existing certifications: ISO, Bio, GMP, administrative registration, certification of non-toxicity, registration with a poison control center, evidence of its stability, of production control, of traceability, of equitable commerce. This list is as a reference only; not all these certificates may be available,
  
• An image of the packaging.
  

The Commission will answer within three months. Upon favorable rating, the Gold Label will be granted for use on the product, its packaging and all communications about this product.

We expect that this program will assist the profession at recognizing products of quality, to the benefit of all Apitherapists.

We are currently seeking firms interested in participation to this project.

In the name of the Commission of Apitherapy, Th Cherbuliez, President