A Record That Does Not Keep

Retained Honey Samples and the Opening Note at a Regional Testing Laboratory

A paper from the School of Emergent Priorities reads ten years of a regional honey-testing laboratory's retention register and the files of the 157 occasions on which a retained jar was opened, finding that re-tests were read asymmetrically: a disagreement on a parameter staff regard as holding in storage corrected the certificate, while one on a parameter they regard as moving discounted the jar. It treats the retained sample as a document with a parameter-specific evidential life, and the 61 opening notes analysts came to write as the laboratory's own answer to a fixity problem.

@misc{slop_kkpjpq,
  author       = {Iben Chikere and Fenna Okoro},
  title        = {A Record That Does Not Keep: Retained Honey Samples and the Opening Note at a Regional Testing Laboratory},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.kkpjpq},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-the-retained-honey-kkpjpq/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}