Jim, Allen, et al:

Since testing for contamination for such a small quantity (2 gals), as Jim
points out, seems not very cost-effective, since there are just too many
variables involved in a long/short term effects and their
dubious/questionable/causal manifestations once consumed, as Allen seems
to point out, and since I am feeding feral swarm-captures so that they can
become viable by next spring—-I am, at this point, inclined to feed it
back to the bees, for they are busy drawing brood chambers at this point.

However, I wish someone had done a significant research on “a long term
residual and other chemical inter-and re-actions occurring within honey
over a period of months and years,” for I just do not think local fire
departments can handle tons of imported honey banned for its
chloramphénicol contamination, for instance.  What do packers do with that
banned stuff: a further dilution with more good honey?  I dung no.  It
will be hard to imagine that they will dump their money.


Yoon

Shawnee, OK

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