F.E.E.D.M., the European Federation of Honey Packers and Distributors (importers and wholesalers), has been established in 1989. It is composed of eleven national honey associations or individual companies of different European countries. The members of F.E.E.D.M. represent about 80% of the total European honey imports, but also buy European honeys. Some members even buy 100% European honeys.

F.E.E.D.M. aims to co-ordinate the interests of the European honey business and to obtain relevant information with regard to honey. F.E.E.D.M. supports free international trade and tries to prevent any kind of discrimination of imported honey in relation to honey produced in the European Union.

The EU is one of the world’s biggest honey markets. Food safety is an integral part of the EU policy on consumer protection and health.

Hygienic and veterinarian conditions are closely monitored and countries exporting food to the EU have to recognize that full compliance with EU laws on food safety is essential

(e.g. New Honey Regulation 2001/110/EC and the Council Directive on Maximum Residue Limits of Veterinarian Medicinal Products in Foodstuffs of Animal Origin 2377/90/EEC).