In a message dated 02/09/2010 13:17:50 GMT Daylight Time,  
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By no  means do I think rendering wax kills spores. 


A highly respected and experienced local beekeeper (Dorset UK) who kept  
bees on a commercial scale, experimentally (and probably illegally as it 
should  have been burnt!) melted down the wax from a colony with AFB, made 
foundation  from it and gave it to a colony to work.  They showed no subsequent 
sign of  AFB.
 
Although AFB spores are very difficult to kill, the beekeeper's view was  
that they had become wax-coated by the process and thus cut off from anything 
 that would activate them.
 
Chris

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