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Many of the present official honey analysis methods and thus also the regulatory norms based on them, are outdated and need revision (1). A Commission was formed in 1990 to carry out this task. Stefan Bogdanov, Switzerland, is ex-chairman the IHC and responsible for compiling the methods, Werner der Ohe, Germany is present chairman, and Peter Martin, UK is secretary. The present selection of methods has been made to include all those which at the present state of knowledge are sufficient for the determination of honey quality. It includes some old methods, which are still widely used in routine analysis, as well as some more modern ones. All the methods compiled in this publication have been published previously and with one exception (specific rotation) have been subjected to collaborative study. Most of them have also been through the standardisation procedure of the German Institute for Norms (DIN). The methods were originally published in 1997 in “Apidologie”(2). As the methods are currently improved, changes to these methods have been made since then, which, however, should improve the methods. Thus, it is the aim of this Internet publication to make the latest version of the IHC methods available to as many people and countries as possible. Everybody concerned is invited to give feed-backs, so that the methods can be improved in the future. The methods can freely by reached also by other Homepages by making a link to the Homepage of the IHC. No changes can be made without the approval of the IHC.

Additions and remarks to the methods, made after the Apidologie publication: Determination of humidity by digital …