Thanks Bill
It is my understanding the Chinese can buy any animal medication over the
counter, antibiotics or whatever. No prescription, no vet, no doctor. A
large part of the E.U. sanctions (on chickens, honey or whatever) is to get
the Chinese Government to tidy this law up, or more correctly get some
controls on drug use.
This is much more than pure honey. Most beekeepers know about drug
resistance in bees but we are talking drug resistance in humans and animals
(like chickens) in our food chain.
The people imposing sanctions on Chinese foodstuffs are saying "Tidy up your
drug laws. Then we can talk about trade". Trade goods are merely a tool to
get drug misuse in China stopped.

Kevin Gibbs

>but SARS seems to fit the profile of misused
> antibiotics. It might not be, but based on what is being found in honey
> and other food coming out of China, the mis-use of antibiotics seems to
> be cultural and either not a problem of or encouraged by the government.
>
> And that is scary, not just for beekeepers but for the world's population.
>
> Bill Truesdell
> Bath, Maine
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