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One of our active research efforts is to identify the region-of-origin
for one globally important commodity: honey. We are interested in
collecting samples of authentic honey and honeycomb, specific to a known
region of the United States. If you are a bee keeper and interested,
please contact us.
These stable isotope variations we analyze are contained in both beeswax and honey. The “Isotope tutorial” pages explain our techniques and how they can be used to determine regional geographic origin.
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We are not food inspectors nor do we have any regulatory function. Our goal is simply to help support regionally important food products. By collecting authentic honey products throughout the USA, we will produce a map that will allow us to predict the region-of-origin for honey samples. We believe our work ultimately has commercial applications – protecting domestic honey products and branding regionally important foods.
We are interested in collecting honey and honeycomb from beehives that are stationary. By sampling stationary hives, we would eliminate the possibility of confounding results caused by the movement of hives between different locations. Our ideal samples would be from hives that:
- Have not been moved in the past year and
- Have not been fed with a sugar solution in the last year.
If you are a beekeeper and willing to provide us with samples of honey and beeswax from your hives, please contact us: lesley@isoforensics.com or brett@isoforensics.com. Thank you!
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