The following has been taken from the IAHAC web site http://www.apishealth.org/

"The International Apis Health Assessment Committee will be meeting February 23-25, 2005 at the DiSTA-Area Entomologia
(Faculty of Agriculture) - to be confirmed - in Bologna, Italy. The purpose of the meeting will be to develop a draft of
an international bee health assessment protocol.

The protocol is meant to provide a consistent international approach to monitoring and diagnosing bee health problems.
Once the protocol has been drafted, it will be validated using case studies from Europe as well as Canada and Argentina.
A final report will be written and presented at the next ICPBR meeting in the fall of 2005."

It would be interesting to hear from beekeepers who know about this, have been approached to give comment or advice on
this project.

For those interested in reading the on going conflict over pesticides and how beekeepers are or not being supported in
France -  http://www.beekeeping.com/
Moving to "New pages" after the home page.
See:"Tuerait-on l'abeille une 2eme fois pour sauver Gaucho/Regent TS (excuse the absence of accents!).

Regards,
Peter

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