Brian asked: 

> So what would it take to get Checkmite delisted 

Not gonna happen.  The amount of organophosphate 
per strip is tiny, the level of use (beekeeping!) 
is trivial, there is a profit in selling it, and it 
is still an effective miticide when used with care 
by those who have not abused miticides and thereby 
created their own strains of resistant varroa, 
living in contaminated woodenware.

> and [get] the tolerance in wax and honey [down] to near zero? 

But this is the exact situation now! 
A "lack of a tolerance" means that the 
tolerance is zero. 

Any detected amount in wax and/or honey makes the honey 
"unfit for human consumption" and the wax "contaminated", 
and unfit for sale for any food-related use.  (I'm not
sure how anyone would react to contaminated non-food-use
wax products, like candles.)

> Why is the industry silent on this while waiting 
> with bated breath for the silver CCD bullet? 

Perhaps because the bigger problem is the extent of 
the off-label miticide use revealed by the work 
looking at the influence of pesticides on CCD.
The MaryAnn Frazier findings are a significant 
indictment of the "homebrew miticide club".

The registration and advertising of Checkmite as a 
dual-use product was a move of pure genius. 

The "Florida Gambit" was a jaw-droppingly elegant 
way through a regulatory maze.  It was not prompted 
by any company, but was a result of the work of the 
Florida Apiarist staff. Their groundbreaking work 
led to the dual-use Section 18s.  

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