Comprehensive honey product analysis

ALS NZ's honey testing service provides fast and cost effective options for the high volume tests needed by beekeepers, manufacturers, and marketers. We are fully accredited under IANZ 17025 and are MPI RLP approved for stress free exporting of your honey when you use our lab.

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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

PRICING AND TURNAROUND TIME

All of ALS routine honey tests have a turnaround time (TAT) of less than a week, with many results available the next day.

Please contact ALS for current pricing and TATs on 07 974 4740 or at ALSFood.Hamilton@alsglobal.com. We are always happy to help you get the most out of your testing.

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