Bee or not to be? Is your honey authentic?

In this Webinar Thomas Spengler will explain the importance of protecting the beekeepers and the bees, as many food products we eat depend on pollination by the bees. Beekeepers are suffering from adulteration in many countries, and it is a real threat to their existence and the food security. Also, consumers are denied the health benefits, which is only given when honey is pure and is produced completely by the bees.

Martin Linkogel from Quality Services International Laboratory will talk about the application of H-NMR and the Honey Profiling 3.1 Method in daily routine for authenticity and quality analysis of honey.

Thursday, 23 November 2023, 14:00 CET

• The various modes of adulteration on honey and the need for advanced for multi marker and non-targeted techniques to tackle honey fraud, ensure supply chain integrity and protect beekeepers, packers and consumers.
• Description of NMR as a powerful technique for the analysis of food products.
• The use of NMR for verification of the declared geographical origin and botanical variety.
• How QSI uses H-NMR and the Bruker Honey Profiling Method 3.1 to universally and efficiently tackle unknown foreign sugar syrups in honey via the targeted detection of sugar syrup markets and non-targeted via dilution effects in the spectra.
• Effective syrup detection (C3 and C4 sugars) in routine quality control: exemplary result comparison for Honey Authenticity Triple-Screening by NMR Bruker, HRMS and LC-IRMS
• Comparability of NMR Bruker results and judgement between different labs in the view of QSI as quality control lab.

Insight into the Honey-Profiling method and the new features of version 3.1

Understanding of the unique advantages of the method over other analytical methods.