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Re: Feeding with pollen
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queenbee <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 1 Mar 2005 07:40:51 +1000
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> You mention Irradiated pollen - I wonder if the radiation does not
> "smash" through the DNA, and other molecular material - disrupting
> its structure.

Here in Australia there was some work done in the early days, never
published to my knowledge, showing that dried pollen that was irradiated did
not lose any of its food value after irradiation.

I believe that dried pollen does lose about 10% of its food value a year
under normal dry conditions.

One thing for Australians is that you cannot sell irradiated pollen for
human consumption.

Trevor Weatherhead
AUSTRALIA

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