> Previous to this I used commercially  prepared icing sugar.  I stopped 
> this having heard that icing sugar  contained the anti-caking agent E341 - 
> rumours reaching me that this  was harmful to bees, though no scientific 
> evidence was given to back  this up.

John, not sure what you have in Greece but here in Australia we use pure 
icing sugar.  The one to avoid is icing mixture as this contains starch.  We 
make all our queen candy with pure icing sugar and have no problems.

Trevor Weatherhead
AUSTRALIA 

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