Honey is a natural product that is widely used for both nutri-tional and therapeutical purposes. Like any other food, honey is prone to various types of contamination (Al-Waili et al., 2012) and it should be free of any chemical contaminants and safe for human consumption (Tsipi et al., 1999). Honey bees and their products including honey wax and pollen are considered poten-tial indicators to mirror the contamination of their surroundings and often used as a sound mean for environmental biomonitoring. Biomonitoring is a valuable assessment tool that is receiving increased attention in monitoring programs. In a general sense biomonitoring may be de fined as the use of organisms/materials to obtain quantitative information on certain characteristics of