On Oct 5, 2005, at 11:34 AM, Chuck Norton wrote:

>  Because it is unlikely that any one company or person will
> undergo the gauntlet and expense for FDA approval of oxalic acid
> applications that have gained approval in Europe and Canada are either
> delayed gaining FDA acceptance or are never filed with the FDA
> because of
> the lengthy and costly process. The FDA trusts no one except
> itself, not
> even its Canadian or European counterparts, and the beekeepers in this
> country unfortunately carry on their shoulders, their hives and in
> their
> pocket books this same burden of trust.

The Canadian Honey Council(Canadian national beekeepers association)
presented the Canadian equivalent of the FDA, the PMRA, with the
documentation required to get approval. This work by the CHC was
funded, in part, by beekeeper donations. Are there no American
equivalents to the CHC?

Bob Darrell
Caledon Ontario
Canada
44N80W

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