wseas-12185-20261008112350-7256cb 20261008112350820 wseas/wseas wseas.group@gmail.com WSEAS International Journal of Environmental Engineering and Development 2945-1159 06 09 2026 06 09 2026 4 Harun Kurtagić Federal Institute of Agriculture Sarajevo BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA Edita Sarić Federal Institute of Agriculture Sarajevo BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA Azra Bašić Halilović Faculty for Pharmacy and Health Travnik BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA Today, there are many published papers of the content of mineral substances, chemical elements and heavy metals in honey and bee products all around the world. However, the natural content of mineral substances in honey plants changes in a negative direction as the result of global pollution, which puts at risk of the contamination of bee pasture and thus bees and man, finally. Chemical elements in honey and bee products can come in three ways: from the environment, feeding bees, processing and packaging honey. A beekeeper can’t control an environmental conditions, but their role is crucial in the last two steps. Metals in honey can change its organoleptic properties. So far, about 54 chemical elements have been detected in honey, of which macro elements, many micro elements and heavy and toxic metals. In this paper, 12 samples of honey were tested, which were collected from beekeepers from different geographical areas of B&H. The beekeepers declared the samples as meadow honeys except one sample. In this paper, a total content of mineral substances, electroconductivity, and the individual content of chemical elements (Na, Mg, Al, K, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, Se, Ag, Ba) were investigated. In work are used conductometer Con 11; Microwave Sineo Jupiter– B; ICPMS Agilent 7700 Series. The average of electroconductivity ranged from 0.228 to 1.116 mS/cm and mineral substances from 0.113 to 0.566 %. 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