You may have a point Peter,  that may not be the right question either.  But as Randy Oliver pointed out in this months ABJ  the current methods of measurement and analysis are less than valuable.  To get to his DCH  (daily consumption hazard)  we would need to do this testing as I mentioned.

The bigger point to me is we ARE losing the battle on neonicitiods.  I can see it The ban in the EU,  the proposed ban in ON and some new groups formed here in the US are poised to ban the one thing thats actually seemed at least to help her in the midwest.  These groups are not driven by fact.  they could care less what Chems are found the most in dead hives. The pressures is on to ban this group of pesticides,  and they are in fact winning.

if we don't correct ouor course on how we measure and test,  we may be right,  but it won't matter.

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