> I had a bee supply branch manager tell me years ago that they used a black
light to check for beeswax adulteration as a simple field test.  Does anyone
> have experience using a black light for this purpose?

Back in the 80's when I worked for the Department here in Queensland, I
heard the same story.  So a chemist and I got together and got pure beeswax,
from burr comb under a lid and then proceeded to add paraffin wax at various
concentrations.  We then used the UV (I assume this is what they are calling
black light) and we could find no way that the UV showed what had been
adulterated with paraffin.

Trevor Weatherhead
AUSTRALIA

 

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