Walter,
 
I quote from you >
>Anyone wanting  U S produced honey without the possibility of DRUG
>contamination should contact a Hawaiian bee keeper. We don't use
>anything more then some terrimycin and that is very infrequently.
>Hoping it works out in a safe and best way.
 
For one who is so scathing about New Zealand's disease status,  I
thought it interesting that you don't consider terrimycin a drug; is that the
correct implication of your statement.  From the Collins English Dictionary I
quote " Drug - any synthetic or natural chemical substance used in the
treatment, prevention, or diagnosis of a disease."
 
Exactly for which disease do you use terrimycin in Hawaii ?
 
In New Zealand it is illegal to even use terrimycin, and has we are mite
free there is no use of apistan or other such chemicals; the use of which
in beehives would be illegal anyway unless the laws were changed.
 
So if you want really pure DRUG FREE HONEY you had better buy it from
New Zealand.
 
Regards,
 
Robert Rice
Apiculture Service Manager (South Island)
Ministry of Agriculture
NEW ZEALAND