Propolis is a resinous, gummy and balsamic hive material made when bees combine plant resins from buds, flowers or exudates with salivary secretions, wax and pollen. Raw propolis is not interchangeable with liquid or dry extracts, tinctures, powders, foods, supplements, cosmetics or medicinal products. Comparable records preserve bee species, botanical and geographic origin, harvest system and date, raw or extracted form, solvent and extraction ratio, dry extract, wax, phenolic and flavonoid results, marker profile, moisture, ash, insoluble or mechanical matter, oxidation test, microbiology, pesticide and veterinary-drug residues, metals, allergens and cross-contact, package and lot, intended use, destination category, quantity, currency, Incoterm, delivery window and information vintage.
ISO 24381:2023 covers quality requirements, analytical methods, packaging, marking, labelling, storage and transport for raw propolis collected from Apis mellifera hives; it does not cover every extract or finished product. Brazil's MAPA Instruction 3/2001 supplies a jurisdiction-specific raw-propolis identity reference: drying loss no more than 8 percent, ash no more than 5 percent, wax no more than 25 percent, phenolic compounds at least 5 percent, flavonoids at least 0.5 percent, mechanical mass no more than 40 percent and ethanol-soluble matter at least 35 percent. These are reference parameters—not proof of a lot's conformity, botanical origin, clinical effect, destination authorization, availability or current physical price.
Brazilian law defines propolis through plant resins, gums and balsams collected by bees and combined with salivary secretions, wax and pollen. ISO 24381:2023 applies specifically to raw propolis from Apis mellifera colonies. Atlas retains bee species, botanical-source evidence, collection geography, hive and harvest period rather than inferring one chemical profile from a colour name such as green, red or brown.
Raw propolis contains the collected hive material. A liquid or solid extract adds an extraction process with a declared solvent, raw-material-to-solvent ratio, time, temperature, filtration, concentration and dry-extract yield. Tinctures, powders, encapsulated ingredients, foods, cosmetics and medicines add further formulation and regulatory states. Atlas never transfers a raw-material assay or price directly to an extract or finished product without traceability and mass balance.
Brazil's raw-propolis regulation specifies limits for drying loss, ash, wax, phenolics, flavonoids, oxidation activity, mechanical mass and ethanol-soluble matter, plus qualitative ultraviolet-visible and reagent tests. A number only has meaning with the cited regulation, analytical method, unit, sample preparation, laboratory, uncertainty, date and lot. ISO 24381 provides a newer international raw-propolis framework, but its copyrighted requirements should be verified from an authorized copy before claiming conformance.
Propolis composition varies with bee, flora, geography, season and processing. Total phenolics and flavonoids are aggregate assays, not a substitute for a chromatographic marker profile or authenticity work. Atlas retains the reference standard and expression basis for each result and does not treat one regional marker, colour or activity assay as universal proof of origin or equivalence.
Commercial diligence may require foreign-matter, microbiological, pesticide, veterinary-drug, heavy-metal and other destination-specific results. Brazil's identity regulation also calls for acceptable contaminant control, while ANVISA's medicinal-product framework asks for validated identity, markers and contaminant information. Atlas retains the sampling plan, laboratory, method, result, limit of quantification, test date, package and lot rather than promoting a producer program to shipment proof.
Propolis can contain bee-derived material, pollen and plant constituents and may be handled on shared lines with honey, pollen, royal jelly, nuts or other ingredients. The relevant food, supplement, cosmetic or medicine category and destination rules determine labels and warnings. Atlas records declared ingredients, bee and pollen context, shared-equipment controls and any required allergen or sensitivity statement without making a medical safety promise.
A laboratory marker or in-vitro result does not establish a clinical benefit. Brazil's ANVISA rules for specific medicines require product-specific identity, quality and supporting evidence, and state that studies on a specific propolis apply only to products based on that propolis. Atlas separates factual composition and trade evidence from therapeutic, disease, dosage and efficacy claims and does not create such claims for routine commodity SEO.
Identity limits and chemical markers do not establish current availability, lot conformity, transaction value or delivered cost. A physical estimate still needs permitted current observations for the exact raw or extracted form, bee and botanical origin, process and dry-extract basis, assay and contaminant evidence, package and lot, intended use and destination category, quantity, currency, Incoterm, load and destination points, delivery window, freight, duties and information vintage. Atlas withholds a physical estimate when those observations or usage rights are missing.
No. An extract adds a solvent, extraction ratio, process, filtration, concentration and dry-extract yield. Raw-propolis identity results cannot be transferred to an extract without traceability and mass balance.
No. Colour can guide investigation, but botanical and geographic origin require documented collection context and an appropriate chemical or botanical marker profile tied to the lot.
No. They are composition and quality-control measurements. Clinical claims require product-specific evidence and the applicable destination authorization.
No. They are different standards and scopes. Each claim requires the applicable edition, authorized requirements, methods, sampling and lot results.
Bee species, botanical and geographic origin, harvest date, raw or extract form, solvent and extraction ratio, dry extract, wax, phenolics, flavonoids and marker profile, moisture, ash, insoluble or mechanical matter, oxidation result, microbiology, residues, metals, allergens and cross-contact, package and lot, intended use, destination category, quantity, currency, Incoterm, delivery window and evidence date.
Figures retain their source, period and review date. Corroboration is not promoted to primary evidence.