Wageningen UR researcher Hans Helsper sees a second route to producing
improved medicinal honey. He caused a plant related to tobacco to produce a
wound-healing peptide, human EGF, by building the relevant coding gene into
the plant. This peptide got into the plant's nectar so that bees could turn
the nectar into honey containing human EGF. Helsper confirmed that the
peptide really was present in the honey. 'The principle works', he says. The
production is too low, however, for an effective honey-based ointment.
Moreover, the risks associated with this gene technology product have not
yet been researched.

Helsper, Kwakman and B-factory published both studies this month in the
scientific journals *Plant Biology* and *European Journal of Clinical
Microbiology & Infectious Diseases.*

*http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-02-medicinal-honey-mrsa.html*



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