In a victory for consumers seeking transparency and accuracy in food and beverage labeling, there is now an approved single-lab validation process for testing alcohol levels in kombucha tea. The Gas Chromatography with Flame Ionization Detection (GC-FID) method achieved a unanimous vote for adoption of first action Official Method status (AOAC 2016.12) at the 130th Annual Meeting of AOAC International, Sept. 18-21, 2016.