Bob Harrison wrote:

> Several beekeepers have told me the antibiotic was used in the production of
> beet sugar and then the beet sugar product was feed to the bees as feed and
> caused the contamination (* not verifiable information and only gleaned by
> beekeeper talk at national bee meetings*).


Which, if true makes the problem even worse, since it is in the whole
society and everyone is eating it as sugar.

If it is only at those low levels in honey then the concentration must
be fairly significant in beet sugar, unless they are using beet sugar to
adulterate the honey!

All this is supposition, but does indicate the low level of regulation.

Bill Truesdell
Bath, Maine

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