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International Petition Against Honey Adulteration
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Hi all,
 
We were one of many to receive the email from an Indian Company offering
products to "stretch" honey. This letter has also been circulated on the
BEE-L.
 
It's also worth visiting the Canadian site
http://www.internode.net/HoneyBee/Analog/ where Dave Tegart (Email :
[log in to unmask]) is looking for signatures for a HONEY ANALOG
PROTEST which includes a COMMITMENT LETTER AND REGISTRY.
 
We appreciate his initiative and feel that this problem not only concerns 
the USA and Canada but beekeepers worldwide. Let's make the most of the Web
and innovate. The "Virtual Beekeeping Gallery" offers you an international
petition set to grow on a daily basis. The list of signatures will be
available for heads of beekeeping or consumers organizations to use to
bring pressure to bear on their politicians. Analysis laboratories will be
able to use it to convince their government to invest in this area.
Journalists, whether beekeeping or main stream, can also use it to
encourage their editors to cover this problem.
 
So, if you are concerned by this problem of adulteration, we would like to
suggest three steps:
 
1. become better informed by reading, for example, the 40-page full report
on the adulteration of honey at
http://www.beekeeping.org/spmf/adulteration.htm or obtain all the messages
dealing with honey analog on BEE-L  by posting the following order to
[log in to unmask] : SEARCH honey analog IN bee-l SINCE Nov 1998
 
2. give the Canadians a helping hand by filling out their protest form at:
http://www.internode.net/HoneyBee/Analog/;
 
3. sign the following international petition at
http://www.beekeeping.org/petition_against_adulteration.htm
 
Any other suggestions will be appreciated.
 
Thanks
 
Gilles Ratia
Webmaster of the "Virtual Beekeeping Gallery"
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http://www.apiservices.com