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Dick Aleen said:
> "Heavily infested colonies that will no longer
> take in syrup may be sprayed repeatedly..."
That's interesting... you seem to have been provided with
the Canadian instructions. Did you purchase yours from a
Canadian dealer?
While Health Canada tends to copy EPA documents word for word
in most cases, the strange stance taken by the EPA in regard to
Fumadil/Fumagilil was puzzling, so we are all lucky that Health
Canada has not followed EPA's lead:
a) Because Mid-Con was unable to afford to change their label
or mixing process to the EPA's liking, the EPA was responsible
for "killing" the only US source of this medication.
b) Somehow, the Canadian maker, Medivet, producing the same
product using very similar methods, was allowed to import
their product without any harassment from EPA about labels.
Now it appears that they have added advice to the label in
advance of any data to support the advice. Does anyone
know if the US labels also have the same text? (I'm not
suggesting that we call this to anyone's attention, as
the last thing we need is additional hassle in getting
this medication.
The failure of Fumadil/Fumagilil to control what is being
called Nosema ceranae may be in part due to the difficulty
that Mid-Con was having with making the stuff. My
understanding is that the mechanical mixing process was not
resulting in a consistent amount of active ingredients in
each and every container sold.
I wonder how much of the problem might be due to over-estimating
the amount of actual medicine in each "dose" measured out of the
container.
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