> I heard this morning about sulfa thiazole showing up in a jar of
> honey randomly taken from a store shelf in Canada. The beekeeper says
> that he didn't use this drug on his bees.
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> My question is , how could
> this drug get into the honey? What were the bees foraging on that
> they would then get the drug into their honey?

Apparently elk farms have been using sulfathyazole in their feed or water,
and several years ago, bees picked some up.

What happened in this particular case, however, I do not know.

allen

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