As the market leader in NZ honey testing, with excellent support available during and after testing, ALS Food & Environmental NZ can help you with all your honey testing needs. ALS Food & Environmental NZ’s honey testing service provides fast and cost effective options for the high volume tests needed by beekeepers, manufacturers, and marketers. This includes testing required by MPI for Manuka honey.
For those working with mānuka honey, we offer both the chemical marker and DNA based pollen tests proposed by MPI for mānuka honey. ALS Food & Environmental NZ also offers other important tests used for grading such as ‘3-in-1’ (DHA, MG, and HMF), Leptosperin, Pollen Counting and Colour & Conductivity. And our mānuka forecasting service can help you work out how your mānuka honey will change as it is stored.
General honey tests like Tutin and C4 sugars apply to all honey, and help meet regulatory requirements in NZ and overseas. Similarly, tests such as Glyphosate, Amitraz and Diastase are required by some international markets under the Codex Standard for Honey. Our American Foulbrood (AFB) test allows screening of honey to monitor hive health or ascertain whether a honey product will meet export requirements such as in…
Microbiology testing is arranged for you by ALS Food & Environmental NZ in-house or through our sister laboratory CAIQTEST (Pacific). Standard testing methodologies suitable to meet international standards such as CODEX are available as well as Chinese National (GB) methods required to meet export requirements for China.
ALS is actively involved in research, and development of new honey tests, so stay in touch to learn about these.
Honey technical notes
ALS honey test and volumes
ALS honey testing service
Tutin testing
C4 sugar Screening testing
Bee products testing
AFB Hive testing
AFB Hive-Swab Testing
Nitrophenol
AFB honey testing
Understanding your Pollen Count results
Understanding the
variability in test results