> Honey acts as an anti-bacterial agent in three ways.

Bill there is a  fourth and that is antibacterial properties.  Honey in 
Australia called jelly bush and the manuka from New Zealand have properties 
that are over and above the three you mention.  We have some honeys with 
high peroxide activity but this other activity is different.  I recall 
something on Bee-l about a month ago where some scientists in Germany, I 
think, claimed they had isolated the antibacterial properties from manuka.

Trevor Weatherhead
AUSTRALIA 

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