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No collaborative work on honey has been carried out within the past year. However, the following work of the Associate Referee has application to honey analysis and is therefore briefly mentioned. A recent paper from this laboratory (1) described a comparison of five methods for the determination of levulose and dextrose in honey, including two described in Official Methods of Analysis of the A.O.A.C. These
were applied to fourteen floral types of honey. It was concluded that “variance due to methods was as great as that due to differences in dextrose and levulose content of the samples from fourteen different
floral sources.”
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