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>>My question is if use of a few thousand pounds per year at most on honey bees produced a risk of resistance in some disease humans catch why is there not a far greater risk from using one million pounds per year on citrus? This makes no sense to me at all.<< Dick
It doesn't, unless you are desperate to stop citrus greening. Even worse, properly applied antibiotics pose little risk of honey contamination; i.e., don't apply during a nectar flow.
Applying antibiotics as a spray to bloom - sure route into the honey and pollen stores. There goes Orange Blossom honey
When issues like this come up, one has to ask, where are our national honey bee organizations? They were mostly silent on the FDA VFD; appeared that they were caught by surprise, even though it was over 5 years in the making by FDA. Now this - I can see the headlines - Contaminated Orange Blossom Honey.
Jerry
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