Ari:
What you wrote is well said.

Underwater bath processing is a way of doing this for
reprocessing of beeswax, and has been used for over a
hundred years or more by experienced beekeepers, and is how
when wax is sent to commercial processors, it is processed,
for saving the beeswax, be it from old recycled combs or
newly taken cappings wax.

I myself would have greater fear from today's contaminating
chemical treatments then foul, as some of them are hard to
break down in reprocessing of beeswax.

So a question to beekeepers here on the list:

Which is greater fear to you?

Chemical contamination of beeswax from any source, and
which ones are you afraid of? or normal hive maladies?

Two such contaminate coming to mind........Coumaphos! and
Fluvalinate! One a neve toxic and the other a memory
retardant.

Respectfully submitted,


Dee A. Lusby
Small Cell Commercial Beekeeper
Moyza, Arizona
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OrganicBeekeepers/




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