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PROBLEM AND OPPORTUNITY: The United States is the only major honey-producing country without published information on the distribution of pollen types in their honey. This inhibits export trade because many foreign importers insist on pollen documentation of claimed floral source of honey they purchase. A similar absence of chemical and physical information in domestic honey was overcome by ARS research between 1955-62 with the development of a data base for 506 U.S. honey samples and the publication of USDA Technical Bulletin 1261, now long out of print. A contract had been approved by ARS in 1964 to conduct a pollen analysis of the 506 samples used in the composition study, but was never implemented because honey research was terminated shortly thereafter.
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