Historically beeswax has played an important role in everyday life. The word wax comes from the Anglo-Saxon word "weax", which meant a natural material, which was obtained from comb, but also for waxes obtained from plants. It is produced by worker bees 12 to 18 days old, colonies are producing wax in the spring. Bees use beeswax as a building material for building combs in which they rear brood, place food reserves and it is participating in communication of nestmates. The production of beeswax is based on the melting of old dark and/or damaged combs, honey caps and wax scum. Beekeepers replace annually about 30% of the old comb in the colonies. Most of the wax is used to produce wax foundation, but it is also used in the cosmetic industry (25-30%), pharmacy (25-30%), candle production (20%), the food industry and others (10-20%). Due to its chemical and physical properties, it has continued to be used in other industries as a varnish, a coating for wooden objects, in fruit growing as a coating after pruning, in the textile industry, electronics and many others. Beeswax that is returned to beekeeping is not subject to control for pesticide and drug medicine residues, which accumulate in the wax over years of use. Residues of pesticides and medicines affect the vitality and health of brood and bees. Adulteration of beeswax is a major problem in the wax foundation market on a global scale. Wax foundations made of adulterated wax affect the vitality and life of bees and can threaten the health of the colony due to impaired communication conditions within the community and negatively affect normal physiological development, and foreign substances affect the decreased production and quality of honey