**7. Contaminants analysis: metals, pesticides, analysis, and results**

Honey is traditionally consumed by humans for being considered a product of natural origin and healthy. However, honey and other bee products can also be a source of toxic substances, such as antibiotics, pesticides (insecticides, fungicides, herbicides, and bactericides), heavy metals, bacteria, and radioactive materials due to environmental pollution and misuse of beekeeping practices, for example, when these substances overdose in beehive treatments. Honey bees collect pollen and nectar from the flowers and then they may return to hives collecting significant amounts of toxic contaminants, therefore their hives and products can result contaminated with many different kinds of pollutants [69, 70]. Thus, the monitoring of contaminants in honey is necessary to warrant consumers' safety.
