>Many of these chemicals are cheap and readily available. The EPA and the
USDA >should have given beekeepers the go ahead to use them years ago.
Rather than >raise the bar so high that it isn't worth going to market, they
should have published >clear instructions on how to purchase, prepare and
use the raw materials."
PETER I hoped you Will Lobby and push for registration of Generic formic
acid 
As you said you doing for MAQS .All I try is to provide support and facts
for you and your friends.

AS for taking about FA there is EPA RULING ON IT:

From:  [log in to unmask]
Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 7:32 AM
To: Bill Ruzicka
CC: [log in to unmask]
Subject::  Re: Registration of Formic Acid

The people who enforce the issue in question is our office of Enforcement
and Compliance Assurance (OECA), who I just spoke to.  According to them,
only advertising and sales of unregistered pesticide is considered illegal.
There is nothing preventing you from "promoting" the use of an unregistered
product.  All you are doing is giving advice, which is not considered as
advertising or sales.

The "problem" ends once the registration is signed and considered final by
this agency
 
Bill Ruzicka

Bill's Honey Farm - Home of the MiteGone Formic Acid Treatment

2910 Glenmore Road North
Kelowna, British Columbia, V1V 2B6 CANADA
Tel/Fax: 1-250-762-8156 (the best way to reach me is by phone Pacific Time)
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