From: "Brian Fredericksen" >
> I don't understand the concern about OA when it has such a long and well 
> researched history in
> the EU.  The EU also appears much further along the way in acheiving a 
> sustainable honey bee
> industry and has more stringent regulations concerning what can be input 
> into a hive.
>
Brian,
    Do you ever have the feeling that unless the USA does it, the opinion 
is, that the results may not be valid? There is so much of "reinventing the 
wheel "in this world, IMO.

Alden Marshall
Hudson, NH 

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