My thanks to Bil and Gavin for there suggestions regarding my pollen 
additions. There are however some practical difficulties in my compliance 
with them.

My wife does the extraction part of the process and she has pointed out 
politely that Gavin's suggestion of tiny pipettes is not likely to be 
implemented in her part of the operation.

Bil has noted that I am mixing pollen with the honey already during the 
extraction process, but am I doing enough? When I started beekeeping forty 
years ago, I did not use queen excluders and there were indeed a lot of 
pollen cells in with the honey. Now I use excluders all the time and there 
are very few if any pollen cells in with the honey.

This may be a route to excluding the honey from countries we don't want to 
deal with - find out if they use excluders and demand honey only obtained 
using the other method.

Another might be to put the information on the label and let the buyer 
decide what he wants. The current approach seems to be descending into 
madness.


                                    Best regards

                                    Donald Aitken

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