At 03:38 PM 1/30/98 -0700, you wrote:
 
 
Some of the defoliants used on cotton are arsenic based.  Arsenic can and
does accumulate in or on forage bees, pollen, and wax.  Whether it can get
into the honey from this source is unknown.  But arsenic is a cumulative
poison and is toxic to bees.
 
Cheers
 
Jerry Bromenshenk
 
 
 
 
>Cotton is one of the most pesticide-intensive crops grow in the U.S.  Many
>of these inorganics accumulate in cotton seed.  Some organic farming
>standards recommend that you not use the meal as a soil amendment because
>of this pesticide accumulation.
Jerry J. Bromenshenk, Ph.D.
Director, DOE/EPSCoR & Montana Organization for Research in Energy
The University of Montana-Missoula
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