Eugene Makovec wrote:
>>>>How does  one go about measuring electrical conductivity in honey or
honeydew?>>>>

I've heard for the first time about measuring electrical conductivity of
honey from Slovenian beekeepers who used to organize honey award
exhibitions, it was around 2002. As I've learned, among other things, it
was useful to distinguish honeydew from other sorts of honey.

Here is a link to the abstract of the article "Electrical conductivity and
acidity of honey" written by the group of young Serbian scientists
https://niv.ns.ac.rs/e-avm/index.php/e-avm/article/view/20 Link to the pdf
document with the whole article is just below the abstract.

Just two short quotations from the article

"The conductivity is very often used in routine honey quality control. This
property of honey is considered very good criterion for assessment of
botanical
origin and purity of honey."

"In accordance with the regulation concerning the quality of honey in the
Republic of Serbia (Official Gazette, 101/2015), minimum electrical conduc-
tivity in honeydew put in the market is fixed to 0.8 mS/cm. For other types
of
honey, the maximum permitted value of electrical conductivity is 0.8 mS/cm."

They've used conductometer Crison (Type Basic 30) and in this article is
described how they performed the measurement.

There is a wide range of instruments for measuring electrical conductivity,
from cheap to more expensive ones.

William Lord mentioned Bulgaria, here is an interesting article:
"Significant parameters of Bulgarian honeydew honey"

https://jcea.agr.hr/articles/774051_Significant_parameters_of_Bulgarian_honeydew_honey_en.pdf

one short quotation from that article:
"The electrical conductivity – one of the most important parameters for
honeydew honey, exceeded 0.8 mS*cmˉ1."
As I know, it is standard in the EU.

regards
Predrag

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