Hi Phil,
        I'm sharing most of your points of view. You hardly can do more to
produce a clean, unpoisoned honey.
 
> I don't understand how using foundation affects the honey in any way.
 
Indeed foundation affects the honey. It is a fact, that producers of
wax-foundations import wax from abroad (especially from different
countries in Africa) They use this clean wax to dilute for example the
European wax with its different ingredients, mostly the organic varroa
fighting drugs. Using this clean wax they can produce a cleaner wax
which they can sell at a better prize.
 
Scientists have found out, that at a high contamination of wax, there is
a diffusion of those chemicals into the honey. Some beekeepers say (I
don't know whether this is true) that we are sitting on a ticking time
bomb. We are not living alone on this planet earth. Even if we are not
using these chemicals we get them from outside.
 
But let me give you a piece of advice. This may be a point you can
change,if you want to produce a better "organic honey". Make your own
foundations from your own clean wax!
 
But you have to know whether this pays off.
 
 
Yours sincerely
 
Reimund
 
Dr. Reimund Schuberth
beekeeper in Germany (Bavaria)
breeding of Carniolan queens
insemination
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