ALlen Dick wrote:
 
""If this keeps you up nights, think about this: The coming of HACCP
regulations are going to be a real problem.  I don't know what they will
eventually turn out to be, but at the outset there were some who proposed
that all the honey from *each yard* (each hive?) be kept separate and form
a *separate batch* and that the extracting line and tanks should be washed
between such batches."
 
Are extractors supposed to be washed between batches?  I always keep a
layer of honey in mine for several months during the extracting season thwn
at the end of season I wash it out to prevent granularization.
 
 
Paul Cronshaw, D.C.
Cyberchiro and Hobbyist Beekeeper
Santa Barbara, CA  USA