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Peter L Borst wrote:
> So, you have a Catch 22 here. You can't release GM honey bees without testing them and you can't test them without using real colonies - out of doors. I talked with several people about the feasibility of maintaining indoor colonies using various techniques but it rapidly became clear that it probably wouldn't work, and you couldn't study the things that are of most interest, like foraging, various behaviors, etc. 
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Peter,

Do they have to test those bees in the USA or can they do that on some 
3rd world island with are less restrictive laws?

Jorg

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