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Actuality. Honey is a unique natural product that is produced in a natural environment and can be contaminated with many natural substances. Such substances enter honey from the nectar of plants that can produce alkaloids. Conduct monitoring studies of honey for the content of pollen grains that can produce alkaloids over the past 5 years, depending on climate change. This is a relevant direction at the present time. The purpose of the study- is to monitor over the past 5 years honey of various botanical origins for the content of pollen grains of plants that produce alkaloids, to establish their impact on the physicochemical indicators of its quality according to current regulatory documentation, and to substantiate the use of the pollen analysis method to predict the presence of alkaloids - pyrrolizidines in honey. Material and methods. Honey sampling and analysis of physicochemical parameters were carried out in accordance with DSTU 4497: 2005 "Natural honey. Technical conditions". The pollen composition of honey was determined using generally accepted international methods. Research results. 686 honey samples from different regions of Ukraine were analyzed, of which 273 samples contained pollen grains that can produce alkaloids. It was found that . most often in honey samples there is thistle pollen (Carduus L.) up to 12%, the highest content is black root pollen (Cynoglossum officinale L.) – 28% in a honey sample from the Dnipropetrovsk region, the second place is taken by wood caragana pollen (Caragana arborescens Lam.) – 15% ( Chernihiv region), the highest content of cornflower (Centaurea L.) up to 9% was observed in the Transcarpathian and Kyiv regions, pollen of the Boraginaceae family (Boraginaceae) 5% was present in the Cherkasy, Kyiv and Odessa regions. It was established that the physicochemical parameters of the honey complied with the current regulatory documentation. Conclusion. The presence of pollen grains from alkaloid-containing plants in honeys is shown, which justifies the need for monitoring studies on the content of pyrrolizidine alkaloids (PA). It has been established that honey samples of various botanical origins containing pollen grains from plants that produce alkaloids meet the requirements of regulatory documents in terms of organoleptic parameters, color, mass fraction of water, and diastase content. The use of the pollen analysis method for predicting the presence of alkaloids in honey is justified, which reduces the cost of laboratory studies for their detection.