>I was hoping to get your impressions of the presentation.  What did you think?

Hi Allen,

I'm trying to get things into a cohesive order.  We are giving a presentation largely on this study (at the same venue) on June 11th, so things will be done as much as they are done soon.  I'd rather reserve some of the details and some of my thoughts until I can present them as a whole.  I will offer this however.....

Clearly Dr. Lu had read some of the criticism (the stuff he was in left field about wrt Bt corn had been corrected), and he wanted to address the dosage issue head on.  

He basically said that the dosage in the trial wasn't too high because, if you take the total amount of imidacloprid fed to the hive, and divide it by a "conservative" number of bees (80,000), you get the amount that each individual bee is exposed to.  Of course this assumes that the feed is distributed evenly among bees...is not stored.  This is too simplistic a model to be credible....and it ignores the fact that some of this HFCS is stored.

deknow

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