Hi Dick
>     1. Commercial wax foundation is irradiated so that AFB is not a worry.
Haven't checked this recently, but work I read years ago found that simply
melting AFB spores into wax tends to make them not infective.  As far as I
know, there are no reports of ABF from foundation.  I've never heard of
manufacturers irradiating nowadays, but they didn't used to, and no one got
AFB from foundation.

>     2. I know a knowledgeable guy who says that cappings wax is the
dirtiest
> wax of all.
All the tests I've read show minimal chems in cappings wax..  New wax drawn
in chemically-contaminated boxes also is very pure.
>
Randy Oliver

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