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From: "Garry Libby" <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: FW: Safer than Honey?
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 19:45:36 -0500
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Dear Listers,
     Here is the response I received from Wholesale Nutrition. Would anyone
on the list have a copy of the FDA article that He mentions? If so maybe You
could post it?
 
Garry Libby
Boston, USA
 
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Sent: Thursday, December 17, 1998 11:55 PM
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Subject: Re: Safer than Honey?
 
 
At 07:00 PM 12/15/1998 EST, you wrote:
>>>>>"Ascorbate Honey is cleaner and safer than bee honey and has no
possibility
>of containing adulterants, botulism spores, drugs, pesticides, allergens,
>wax, bee remains, bee feces, or other "insolubles" from the hive. (And who
>knows what "solubles" have been introduced by the bees.) Ascorbate honey is
>OK even for infants!!"<<<<<
>
>Hello,
>  Do You have any proof to back up that statement? Also, how does feces get
>into honey??
>
>Thank You,
>Garry Libby
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Dear Mr Libby,
 
Call the FDA and get a copy of pages 12 and 13 of the
Sept 1979 "FDA Consumer", a monthly periodical by the FDA.
The article is called, "Honey: Making Sure It's Pure",
written by Roger W. Miller, then editor of the magazine.
 
Sincerely,
Oscar Falconi
Wholesale Nutrition
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