Honey adulteration by Lee Martin
Tue 12 Jan
|Zoom meeting
Adulterated honey is notoriously difficult to test and identify. Lee has worked across Europe with customers to help with food fraud. He will describe how stable isotopes play a part in honey fraud analysis and take you through an overview of the technology involved.
Time & Location
12 Jan 2027, 19:30 – 21:00
Zoom meeting
About the Event
Lee is a Mass Spectrometry Senior Systems Engineer with experience in Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry and the analysis of Stable Isotopes (as well as quadrupole and time-of-flight mass spec). He is not strictly a honey adulteration scientist, but in his various roles in the scientific instrumentation industry, he has worked with customer laboratories who deal in food fraud and stable isotope honey analysis. He will give an overview of the technology involved, much of it developed in Manchester.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/understanding-honey-fraud-and-the-role-of-authenticity-testing