This article reports the results of a survey of 50 Bangladeshi retail honeys, including both a premium multifloral (Sundarban) and premium monofloral varieties. Analysis was by isotope ration mass spectrometry (carbon, nitrogen and oxygen in the protein fraction, plus carbon in the whole honey). 9 of the honeys were found to be adulterated with C4-sugar syrups when assessed using internationally-accepted criteria. The remaining 41 honeys were used to build an isotope-ratio classification model that can discriminate Bangladeshi honeys from other geographic origins and so can be used as a future classification tool. The work was funded by IAEA and we are grateful to co-author and FAN member Simon Kelly for providing this author’s hyperlink which gives free access until November 24.
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