Hello All

Ed Parker wrote inter alia

>Apiares must be on "certified" land,

But how do you stop the bees from gaining access to polluted forage when you
cannot control where they visit within their foraging radius unless you own
or otherwise totally control the crops grown on the land over which they
forage. Given that bees will fly lets say up to 3 miles (4.8 km) for forage,
the area covered by a beehive must be PI* 3*3 square miles (28.27) which
works out as 18093 acres. Quite a large area indeed!.

Do you write something like 'To the best of my knowledge and belief this
honey is produced from forage which is largely not polluted, but I cannot
guarantee that the bees have not visited polluted crops' on the label.

But what good would that be to a market place that wants unconditionally
guaranteed organic products?. The fact that nobody can now supply such
products is neither here nor there.

Sincerely

Tom Barrett
49 South Park, Foxrock
Dublin 18
Ireland
Tel + 353 1 289 5269
Fax + 353 1 289 9940