Fecha de publicación: 17/11/2022 Fuente: WIPO "apis cerana" In the Philippines, the Department of Agriculture – Bureau of Agricultural Research (DA-BAR) identifies honey production as one of the most promising small and medium enterprises. Stingless bee honey, in particular, has excellent market potential for the food, pharmaceutical, and cosmetic industries due to its positive health effects. Several studies show that stingless bee honey has therapeutic properties that are at par or even significantly better than honey produced by A.mellifera, which includes the Manuka Honey. In fact, stingless bee honey is being regarded in the ASEAN Region as the next 'super food' industry, that can be a competitor to the Manuka Honey. Therefore, there is a need for a tool to be able to determine which species of bee produced a particular honey product. With this need as motivation, the proponents of the technology developed a tool for determining the bee species origin of honey products in the Philippines.