On Thu, 10 Nov 2005 10:02:59 BeeMe 11 wrote:
"I am trying to find more information about what a modern honey & pollen
laboratory have to look like."
Hi Stefan,
I really do not know exactly what purpose you have in mind for such a
facility or where it would be built, if funded. However, it is certain to
say that you are looking for something that is way out of the ballpark for
most of us who read this list except for the university and corporate
entities, and most of them just could not fund such a laboratory, or
laboratories, at the drop of a hat.
Many of this countries' state departments of agriculture have most of the
equipment you have mentioned, although only a few have the latest state of
the art equipment.
From the archives a favorite passage of mine is one penned by James
Fischer who in, http://listserv.albany.edu:8080/cgi-bin/wa?
A2=ind0212C&L=bee-
l&D=1&O=D&F=&S=&X=3EBAF8734DD03C7E88&[log in to unmask]&P=1897,
talks about the limits of analysis and the laboratory equipment available
to achieve such analysis. He ends his post with:
“jim (who wants a ThermoQuest Surveyor MS Pump and Autosampler,
ThermoQuest Finnigan TSQ 7000 with API2,
Xcalibur, Version 1.2,
Surveyor AS, Version 1.2 SP 1,
Surveyor MS pump, Version 1.2,
and TSQ MS, Version 1.1
...for Christmas, 'cause it appears that his pretty little
HPLC set-up is destined for the scrap heap.)”
For pollen analysis I suggest that you contact Texas A&M University,
Professor Vaughan M. Bryant, Ph. D. at 308F Anthropology Bldg, 4352
TAMU, College Station, TX 77843-4352 by snail mail or [log in to unmask]
Email. For about $50.00 bucks along with a small honey sample Dr. Bryant
can tell you ALL about the pollen and the floral varieties contained
within a sample.
In short, send small samples and make small payments.
Cheers,
Chuck Norton
PS. Jim, did Santa come through with your Christmas wish?
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