Embalming with honey: Quest for an eco-friendly and non-toxic museum

According to Codex Alimentarius, ‘Honey is the natural sweet substance, produced by honeybees from the nectar of plants or from secretions of living parts of plants, or excretions of plant-sucking insects on the living parts of plants, which the bees collect, transform by combining with specific sub...

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Autores principales: Sah, Kunal, Chandra, Sunira
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2023
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Review Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10683896/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/38033935
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jomfp.jomfp_42_23
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spelling pubmed-106838962023-11-30 Embalming with honey: Quest for an eco-friendly and non-toxic museum Sah, Kunal Chandra, Sunira J Oral Maxillofac Pathol Review Article According to Codex Alimentarius, ‘Honey is the natural sweet substance, produced by honeybees from the nectar of plants or from secretions of living parts of plants, or excretions of plant-sucking insects on the living parts of plants, which the bees collect, transform by combining with specific substances of their own, deposit, dehydrate, store and leave in honeycombs to ripen and mature’. It can also penetrate deep into the tissue and can prevent autolysis and putrefaction. This paper highlights the usefulness of honey as an embalming agent. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2023 2023-09-12 /pmc/articles/PMC10683896/ /pubmed/38033935 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jomfp.jomfp_42_23 Text en Copyright: © 2023 Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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