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Jean-Pierre Chapleau <[log in to unmask]>
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A year ago or so I remember someone posting on this list about using bees as
pollution indicators.  If I remember well this person was a scientist
specialising in this area.  I tried to trace these posting back from the
archives but without success.  So I post to the list.
 
A new gigantic magnesium plant (Magnola) is being erected in my area.  The
plant will use a chlorine based process.  Likely, a large volume of
organochlorates (hope I spell right) will disperse in the environment from
the plant.  The agricultural and beekeeping community is worrying about the
situation.
 
The issues I would like to get information on are the folowing:
 
1) to what extent can the hive products be affected by dioxins, furans,
chlorobenzene, hexachlorobenzene, BCP etc?  I suspect that the pollen,
containing lipids, can be contaminated.  What about the wax?  What about
the honey?
 
2) as I will be personnally involved in the development of a protocol for
the monitoring of the environmental pollution (from the beekeeping
perspective), I would like to know if the bees themselves (their body
tissues) can be good organochlorate pollution indicators?
 
3) who are the specialists in this field?
 
4) is there serious written technical information on this matter and where
to find it (I consider using the IBRA library)?
 
Jean-Pierre Chapleau
1282, rang 8, Saint-Adrien, Que., Canada, J0A 1C0
tel : (819) 828-3396, fax (819) 828-0357
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