>However, I am still interested to know whether E341 is hazardous to bees - 
>I would have  thought not as icing sugar and various forms of bakers' 
>fondant  -   have been used for many years in queen cages...

I do not know of any commercial fondant containing anti-caking agents.  In 
response to my enquiry about additives, our supplier sent me a specification 
sheet listing just three ingredients - sucrose, glucose solids and water.

http://www.stratford-upon-avon.freeserve.co.uk/PENotes/FondantSpecification.htm

Best wishes

Peter 

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