Dick Aleen said:

> "Heavily infested colonies that will no longer 
> take in syrup may be sprayed repeatedly..."

That's interesting... you seem to have been provided with 
the Canadian instructions. Did you purchase yours from a 
Canadian dealer?

While Health Canada tends to copy EPA documents word for word 
in most cases, the strange stance taken by the EPA in regard to 
Fumadil/Fumagilil was puzzling, so we are all lucky that Health 
Canada has not followed EPA's lead:

a) Because Mid-Con was unable to afford to change their label 
   or mixing process to the EPA's liking, the EPA was responsible 
   for "killing" the only US source of this medication.  

b) Somehow, the Canadian maker, Medivet, producing the same 
   product using very similar methods, was allowed to import 
   their product without any harassment from EPA about labels.

Now it appears that they have added advice to the label in 
advance of any data to support the advice.  Does anyone
know if the US labels also have the same text?  (I'm not
suggesting that we call this to anyone's attention, as
the last thing we need is additional hassle in getting
this medication.

The failure of Fumadil/Fumagilil to control what is being 
called Nosema ceranae may be in part due to the difficulty 
that Mid-Con was having with making the stuff.  My 
understanding is that the mechanical mixing process was not 
resulting in a consistent amount of active ingredients in 
each and every container sold.  

I wonder how much of the problem might be due to over-estimating 
the amount of actual medicine in each "dose" measured out of the 
container.

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