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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 6, 2012

- There have been many prominent theories to explain colony
collapse disorder (CCD), including the 7 enumerated in the
authors’ cited UN News Center 2011 reference. High fructose
corn syrup (HFCS) is not among any of them.

- The authors used HFCS as a vehicle to carry added, incremental
doses of imidacloprid, an insecticide, to bees in test hives. 
Accordingly, the authors spiked HFCS with 4 different doses of imidacloprid and untreated HFCS was used as a control.

- The authors disproved their own hypothesis by reporting 
that they found anticipated levels of imidacloprid in the 
4 spiked variables, but found NONE in the untreated HFCS 
control.

- The study seems to have affirmatively refuted the authors’
HFCS hypothesis because the untreated HFCS used for the 
experiment’s controls showed no comparable lethal effect.
This presumably demonstrates that effect-level traces of 
imidacloprid could not be present in HFCS.

- And finally, there is considerable doubt that the failed 
hives succumbed to CCD. In fact, field observers reported 
"scattered dead honey bees in front of individual hives"
and admitted "this observation is not quite reminiscent 
of the reported CCD symptoms." This, too, was vindication 
for HFCS.

Paul Cherubini
El Dorado, Calif.

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