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Tests are selected by workers of meat-and-milk and food control stations in the presence of the owner of honey, preliminary checking a condition of container and its conformity to the present requirements.

For honey research take sample in weight 100 g from each controllable unit of packing. At definition of the maintenance of water areometrom the weight of test doubles. The honey which not realised and has been not checked in the market, is subject to repeated examination.

Samples of honey for laboratory examination select a sampler or shchupom from different layers and place in pure ware from glass or porcelain. Zakristallizovannyj honey select conic shchupom, immersing it naklonno. Then turn it round an axis on 360 В° and take. Comb honey accept for examination if it is sealed, not zakristallizovan, and honeycombs have homogeneous white or yellow colour. For test from every fifth cellular framework cut out a knife a part sota the area of 25 sm2. If comb honey lumpy, that is honeycombs are cut already out from a framework, test undertakes in the same sizes from each packing.

If honey is sealed, it testifies to its maturity, but is not a guarantee of its quality and naturalnosti. At examination of comb honey pay attention to fermentation signs, presence at honeycombs rasploda and pergi, sugar honey and organolepticheskih of defects. Detection of one of the listed qualities forms the basis for its rejection.