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Date: | Tue, 6 Sep 2022 16:09:21 -0400 |
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>from memory > 45% of honey presented at Honey Show Apimondia Montreal
>proved to be some sort of fake honey
How was this year's honey show? Is it true that 66% (2/3) of the samples were discarded due to contamination from winter stocks or contaminants?
If this is true, Intertek, I think, should develop some very quick and cheap test for honey consumers. Or offer a quick test for beekeepers, who could supply it to test their own honey to the consumer. Something could happen in this direction.
Something really fast, cheap and effective.
For example, what is the difference between alpha-amylases. If there was a dominant sequence for bee AMS via PCR, or a non-dominant AMS and a very rare one, which has never been found in bees but is found in industrial strains, isn't this the way?
I don't see a problem with the fact that Intertek finds imperfections in the Apimondia honey show of some sample, the assumption is that the honey is from bees and is of high quality, even if it is old, or a tiny residue of feed or some medicine or other ecological contamination is found.
It bothers me that Intertek should transfer the skills it has with the development of its measurement technologies not only to Apimondia, but mainly to the shelves directly to the honey consumer. The consumer likes to buy measuring simple and cheap things to verify the qualities.
Gustav Palan
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