At 12:00 AM 2/10/2006, you wrote:
>The bacteria isolated from honey had significant anti-fungal and 
>anti-bacterial activity.

This sentence seems to be contradictory. If pure honey has anti 
bacterial and anti microbial characteristics, then the presence of 
bacteria in honey would indeed be newsworthy.

I'd personally like to understand this better.

>From:    Peter John Keating <[log in to unmask]>

>There must be a
>great deal of empty, unwashed  honey barrels from Argentina being sold all
>over the province of Quebec putting Quebec colonies at great risk of
>acquiring resistant AFB. The same must apply to many honey importing regions
>of the world.

The implication then is that it's not the honey that naturally has 
the bacteria, but unclean container or unsanitary practices?


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