Honey & honey products

Honey & honey products

We offer comprehensive testing services for honey and honey-based products, including raw honey, flavored honey, honeycomb, honey-infused jams, and beauty products.
Our testing covers parameters such as purity, microbial contamination, pesticide residues, heavy metals, moisture content, and nutritional composition.
These evaluations ensure the safety, quality, and compliance with food safety regulations, helping deliver natural, healthy, and safe honey products to consumers.

General Chemical Parameters:

  • Acidity (Expressed as formic acid)
  • Fiehe's Test
  • Free from brood
  • Free from fragments of bees
  • Free from grains of sand
  • Free from insect debris
  • Free from insects
  • Free from organic and inorganic matter
  • Free from pieces of bees wax
  • Free from visible mould
  • Fructose-Glucose Ratio
  • Hydroxy Methyl Furfural (HMF)
  • Moisture
  • Optical Density
  • Specific Gravity at 27º C
  • Sucrose
  • Total Ash
  • Total Reducing Sugars

Heavy Metals:

  • Arsenic (as As)  
  • Cadmium (as Cd)  
  • Copper (as Cu)  
  • Lead (as Pb)  
  • Mercury (as Hg)  
  • Methyl Mercury (as CH3Hg)  
  • Tin (as Sn)

Pesticide Residues:

  • Malaoxon  
  • Malathion  
  • Phosalone

Naturally Occurring Toxic Substances (NOTs):

  • Agaric acid  
  • Hydrocyanic acid  
  • Hypericine  
  • Melamine  
  • Safrole

Microbiological Analysis Parameters

  • Coliform Count  
  • Escherichia coli  
  • Salmonella  
  • Shigella  
  • Staphylococcus aureus  
  • Total count of pollens/Plant elements  
  • Total Plate Count  
  • Yeast & Mould Count