Market Assessment of a Honey Quality Test

蜂蜜质量测试的市场评估

• 批准号: 531833-2018
• 负责人: Foster, Leonard
• 金额: $ 1.09万
• 依托单位: University of British Columbia
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Idea to Innovation
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2018-01-01 至 2019-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=651017
• 关键词: Market; Assessment; Honey; Quality; Test

Honey is the primary source of income for most Canadian beekeepers. For the past few years, Canadian beekeepers have produced in excess of 41 million kilograms of honey annually. Weather, the number of colonies in production and other factors have a big impact on the amount of honey produced but the value of that honey fluctuates across a much wider range. In 2014 and 2015, the farmgate value of all honey produced was approximately $210M but, in 2016, the same amount of honey brought in only $157M, largely because the bulk price of honey dropped precipitously. In a world-wide market, there are many factors that can affect commodity prices but one major concern is the volume of cheap synthetic or adulterated honey disguised as an authentic product, which can drive down honey prices. Quality assurance testing for honey would help build public trust in the product and allow producers to distinguish Canadian honey as a premium product in local and international sales and provide the CFIA with an evidence-based tool for blocking imports of false or adulterated honey. This will, in turn, benefit Canadian honey producers and packers by pushing up prices of authentic Canadian honey. A quality assurance test for honey based on Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy has been developed by Bruker BioSpin but Canadian beekeepers have been reluctant to use it, preferring a home-grown solution. Our industry partner, Worker Bee Honey Company has recently installed a 400 MHz NMR and is seeking to apply it. In parallel, we have also been developing mass spectrometry (MS) to complement NMR data and, possibly, to provide a less expensive means of testing. Here we will develop the two spectroscopy approaches, aiming to determine the optimum solution for screening honey, both in terms of cost and ability to detect adulteration. This application is for the Market Assessment phase of the I2I program, to determine what the market for a honey quality test might be.**

蜂蜜是大多数加拿大养蜂人的主要收入来源。在过去的几年里，加拿大养蜂人每年生产超过4100万公斤的蜂蜜。天气、生产中的蜂群数量和其他因素对蜂蜜的产量有很大影响，但蜂蜜的价值波动的范围要大得多。在2014年和2015年，所有蜂蜜的农场价值约为2.1亿美元，但在2016年，同样数量的蜂蜜只带来了1.57亿美元，主要是因为蜂蜜的散装价格急剧下降。在全球市场上，有许多因素可以影响商品价格，但一个主要问题是廉价合成蜂蜜或掺假蜂蜜伪装成正宗产品的数量，这可能会压低蜂蜜价格。蜂蜜的质量保证测试将有助于建立公众对产品的信任，并允许生产商将加拿大蜂蜜区分为本地和国际销售的优质产品，并为CFIA提供一个基于证据的工具，以阻止进口虚假或掺假的蜂蜜。这将反过来通过推高正宗加拿大蜂蜜的价格，使加拿大蜂蜜生产商和包装商受益。Bruker BioSpin开发了一种基于核磁共振（NMR）光谱的蜂蜜质量保证测试方法，但加拿大养蜂人一直不愿意使用它，他们更喜欢国产的解决方案。我们的行业合作伙伴，工人蜂蜂蜜公司最近安装了400兆赫核磁共振，并正在寻求应用它。同时，我们也一直在开发质谱（MS）来补充核磁共振数据，并可能提供一种更便宜的测试手段。在这里，我们将开发两种光谱方法，旨在确定在成本和检测掺假能力方面筛选蜂蜜的最佳解决方案。本申请用于I2I计划的市场评估阶段，以确定蜂蜜质量测试的市场需求